Numbers 14:29

What does Numbers 14:29 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 14:29 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

your 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,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Your carcases 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,

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

your 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,

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,

Context

v.28Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

v.29This passage

v.30surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Cross references

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

  • Numbers 14:32

    But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:5

    Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • Numbers 1:45

    So all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

  • 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 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.

  • Jude 1:5

    Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

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