fourtie yeares] Wanting five dayes; for they came out of Egypt the fifteenth day of the first moneth, Chap. 33. vers. 3. and they entered into Canaan the tenth day of the first moneth of the fourtie first yeare of their departure, Joshua 4:19. but in so many yeares so few dayes are not considerable: See Annot. on Chap. 11. vers. 24. beare your whoredomes] That is, the punishment of your spirituall unfaithfulnesse, disloyaltie, and disobedience, contrary to the duty of a wife to her husband; before you come into the promised Land, you shall (for the wickednesse of your revolts, and rebellions, that you may be punished in them) wander in the wildernesse untill your carkasses be there consumed.