Wilderness & Conquest
Old TestamentThe Wilderness
Forty years between
A generation formed — and tested — in the desert between Egypt and the land.
Reading plan
How the story unfolds
- 1
Manna and water
Provision is given daily and rationed weekly.
- 2
The twelve spies
A report divides the community.
- 3
A generation turned back
Entry is postponed for forty years.
- 4
Remember the way
Deuteronomy reads the wilderness as formation.