# not well pleased

"displeased" or "angry" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-litotes]])

# most of them

"most of the Israelite fathers" or "most of our ancestors"

# their corpses were scattered about

"God scattered their dead bodies around" or "God killed them and scattered their bodies"

# in the wilderness

the desert land between Egypt and Israel through which the Israelites wandered for 40 years