According to the number of the days that you scouted the land, forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year, you shall bear your iniquities forty years, and you shall know My opposition.
English: Did they sin forty years? They only sinned forty days! Rather, to teach you: whoever commits a transgression even one day in the year, Scripture counts it as if he transgressed the whole year.
Type of Learning
Measure of punishment expanded from day to year.
What Is Learned
The day-for-year principle also teaches how a single day’s sin can be weighed as a year.