Numbers 16:29

What does Numbers 16:29 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 16:29 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

if according to the death of all men these die--or the charge of all men is charged upon them--Jehovah hath not sent me;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

if these men die as all men die, and are visited with the visitation of all men, Jehovah has not sent me;

Context

v.28And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.

v.29This passage

v.30But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.

Cross references

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

  • Jeremiah 5:9

    Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Ecclesiastes 3:19

    For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

  • 1 Kings 22:28

    And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.

  • 2 Chronicles 18:27

    And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.

  • Exodus 32:34

    And now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.

  • Lamentations 4:22

    The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover thy sins.

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