Numbers 32:15

What does Numbers 32:15 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 32:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

If ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

Context

v.14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

v.15This passage

v.16And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

Cross references

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

  • 1 Corinthians 8:11

    For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

  • 2 Chronicles 7:19

    But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

  • Romans 14:15

    For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.

  • Leviticus 26:14

    But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

  • Deuteronomy 30:17

    But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

  • Matthew 18:7

    Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!

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