For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
þat was borun in deseert bi fourti yeer, in þe weie of broddeste wildirnesse, was vncircumsidid til þei weren waastid, þat herden not þe vois of þe Lord, and to whiche he swoor bifore, þat he schulde schewe to hem þe lond flowynge with mylk and hony.