5除了约书亚和迦勒以外，那些彀资格并豫备好去取得地的人，都是年轻的一代。他们是第二代。年长的一代，第一代的人，已经过了许多事，学了许多功课。然而，他们没有资格进入那地。第一代所学的功课，必然成了部分的产业，传给了第二代。他们的孩子确实从双亲那里承受了已过四十年间所学的功课。年轻的一代从出生就被摆在一个地位，承受他们家族的传统，并他们双亲所经历的一切。我信父老们曾对他们的孩子说过他们在埃及、从埃及出来、以及在旷野中的经历。毫无疑问，父老们说到他们在埃及为奴时，受到何等残酷的对待；说到神如何在祂的怜悯里，打发摩西将他们从辖制下解救出来；说到他们怎样在次月的第十四日守逾越节；说到他们如何出埃及、过红海。父老们也必定向孩子们解释过，他们进入旷野，没有食物，但神用吗哪𫗪养他们，且用流自被击打之盘石的水供应他们。他们也可能解释说，后来虽然他们感觉吗哪可厌，他们仍珍赏牠。百姓没有生产任何谷物，但四十年来，他们接受了属天吗哪的供应。不仅如此，年青的一代也认识摩西，晓得他给以色列人极大的帮助。摩西没有被准许进入美地，但他对神的子民贡献了许多建设性的因素。
5With the exception of Joshua and Caleb, those who were qualified and ready to take possession of the land were younger ones. They were of the second generation. The older ones, those of the first generation, had passed through many things and had learned many lessons. However, they were not qualified to enter into the land. The lessons learned by the first generation surely became part of the heritage passed on to the second generation. Their children certainly inherited from their parents all the lessons they learned during the forty years in the wilderness. By their birth the younger ones were put into a position to inherit the tradition of their family and all that their parents had experienced. I believe that the fathers spoke to their children about their experiences in Egypt, in the exodus from Egypt, and in the wilderness. No doubt, the fathers spoke about how they were cruelly treated as slaves in Egypt, about how God in His mercy sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, about how they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month, and about how they marched out of Egypt and crossed the Red Sea. The fathers must have also explained to their children that they entered into the wilderness without food but that God fed them with manna and supplied them with water from the smitten rock. They might have also explained that although they eventually felt that manna was loathsome, they nevertheless appreciated it. The people did not grow any crops, but for forty years they daily received the heavenly supply of manna. Furthermore, the younger ones learned about Moses and about the great help he rendered to the people of Israel. Moses himself was not allowed to enter into the good land, but he contributed many constructive factors to God’sp eople.