Numbers 14:12
What does Numbers 14:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 14:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
Context
v.11And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?
v.12This passage
v.13And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 5:3
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
- Exodus 32:10
now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
- Numbers 16:46
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take thy censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah; the plague is begun.
- Numbers 25:9
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
- 2 Samuel 24:12
Go and speak unto David, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
- 2 Samuel 24:1
And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
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