Numbers 14:28

²⁶ Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

²⁷ “How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.

So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

²⁹ Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

³⁰ Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
KJV: Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
WEB: Tell them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.
ASV: Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
DARBY: Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
BLB: Say to them, as I live, says YHWH, very truly as you⁺ have spoken in My hearing, so will I do to you⁺.

ÅB: Si til dem: Så sant jeg lever, sier Herren: Som dere har talt for mine ører[^1], slik vil jeg gjøre med dere:
OTB: Så si til dem: ‘Så sant Jeg lever, erklærer Herren, Jeg vil gjøre mot dere akkurat som dere har sagt:
B1930: Si til dem: Så sant jeg lever, sier Herren: Som I har talt for mine ører, således vil jeg gjøre med eder: / < 4MO 14, 2.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Numbers 14:21
“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
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Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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Numbers 14:2
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
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Deuteronomy 1:35
“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
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Numbers 14:23
not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
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Numbers 26:64–65
Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
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Numbers 32:11
‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
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Psalms 90:8–9
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
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