2:14 Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.
Deuteronomy 29:22
29:22 The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see 1 the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it.
1 tnHeb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.