--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 1 published: 1920-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Who of Israel Entered Canaan?," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 1 (November 1920): 79–80.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2401unse start_page: 79 end_page: 80 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Who of Israel Entered Canaan? Who of Israel Entered Canaan? In the September number of the Era, page 1020, the follow- ing statement occurred in the advanced senior class lesson, re- lating to the entrance of the Children of Israel into Canaan: 80 IMPROVEMENT ERA Being *l<>\\ l<> believe and quick to doubt, their progress was snail-like; ->fthe thousands who started only two survived the forty years' journey to the Land of Promise. As a general proposition, not intended as a detailed, tech- oical account of the event referred to, this statement is correct enough, but, to prevent any misunderstanding, it may be just as well to add that the death sentence passed by the Lord upon the generation that was led out of Egypt by Moses, on account of rebellion and murmuring, did not include the children or younger members of the families. According to Numbers 14: 28-31, the Lord said to Moses: Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, doubtless yo shall not come into the land concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in. from this that those under twenty years at the It is clear time of the first census after the exodus were not included under the general conviction. But that even many of these died in the wilderness can hardly be doubted. Children and young people are passing away everywhere, every year. The survivors entered Canaan under the leadership of Joshua. This was not explicitly stated in the Era, but it is well un- derstood by Bible readers.