Numbers 14:31

What does Numbers 14:31 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 14:31 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

`As to your infants--of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become--I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.

Context

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.

v.31This passage

v.32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

Cross references

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

  • Genesis 25:34

    And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: so Esau despised his birthright.

  • Numbers 14:3

    And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

  • Psalms 106:24

    Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,

  • Hebrews 12:16

    lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

  • 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.

  • Acts 13:41

    Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, if one declare it unto you.

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