Albert Barnes Commentary Numbers 14:21-23

"but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah; because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:" — Numbers 14:21-23 (ASV)

Render: But as truly as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord; (Numbers 14:22) all those men...; (Numbers 14:23) shall not see....

These ten times—Ten is the number which signifies completeness . The sense is that the measure of their provocation was now full; the day of grace was at last over. However, some enumerate ten different occasions on which the people had tempted God since the Exodus.

(Psalms 90), which is entitled “a Prayer of Moses,” has been most appropriately regarded as a kind of dirge upon those sentenced so terribly by God to waste away in the wilderness.