Deuteronomy 1:46

So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode [there].

Ver. 46. So ye abode in Kadesh many days.] Many indeed; yea, many years. And here it was, or hereabouts, that they received those laws which are recorded, Num 15:1-41 as also that they stoned him that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day; that Korah and his accomplices perished; that fourteen thousand seven hundred died of the plague; that Aaron's rod flourished; that Moses, seeing the people fall so fast in the wilderness, wrote Psalms 90:1,17, - where he telleth us that the ordinary term of man's life was reduced to seventy or eighty years, and so made shorter by half than before. All which things are thought to have happened in the last six months of the second year after their coming out of Egypt: the history of those two years only, and of the last of the forty are set forth by Moses: the intercurrent thirty seven years with their events, save only the bare names of their various stations, Num 33:1-56 being passed over in silence. If men will take liberty to commit sin against God, he will make but a short story of them and their works: Lot, for instance. Gen 19:36