Numbers 14:29
27 “How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
28 So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
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.
31 But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
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
- 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.
- KJV
- Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
- WEB
- Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
- ASV
- your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,
- DARBY
- In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
- BLB
- In this wilderness your⁺ corpses shall fall, and all your⁺ numbered, according to your⁺ entire number, from a son of twenty years and above, because you⁺ have grumbled against Me.
- ÅB
- I denne ørken skal deres døde kropper falle, alle de blant dere som ble mønstret, så mange som dere er, fra tyveårsalderen og oppover, dere som har knurret mot meg;
- OTB
- I denne ørkenen skal deres kropper falle—hver og en av dere som er tjue år eller eldre som ble talt i folketellingen og som har klaget mot Meg.
- B1930
- I denne ørken skal eders døde kropper falle, alle de blandt eder som blev mønstret, så mange som I er, fra tyveårsalderen og opover, I som har knurret mot mig;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 1:45
So all the Israelites twenty years of age or older who could serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.
Read in contextNumbers 26:64
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.
Read in contextHebrews 3:17
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:5
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
Read in contextNumbers 14:32–33
As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
Read in contextJude 1:5
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
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