Numbers 32:8
What does Numbers 32:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 32:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land:
Context
v.7And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah hath given them?
v.8This passage
v.9For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
- Deuteronomy 1:19
And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
- Joshua 14:6
Then the children of Judah drew nigh unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that Jehovah spake unto Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning thee in Kadesh-barnea.
- Numbers 13:2
Send thou men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a prince among them.
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