en_tn/heb/03/17.md

With whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

The author uses questions to teach his readers. These two questions can be joined as one statement, if needed. Alternate translation: "For forty years, God was angry with those who sinned, and he let them die in the wilderness." (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)

forty years

"40 years" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)