Numbers 14:28

What does Numbers 14:28 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 14:28 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

say unto them, I live--an affirmation of Jehovah--if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears--so I do not to you;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!

Context

v.27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

v.28This passage

v.29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 32:11

    Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

  • Psalms 90:8

    Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

  • Numbers 26:64

    But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

  • Numbers 14:23

    surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:

  • Hebrews 3:17

    And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Numbers 14:2

    And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

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