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 · 2000If 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 · 1611If 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 · 1901If 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 · 1949If 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 · 1862if 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) · 1752If 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 · 1890if 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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