Numbers 14:33

Judgment

³¹ But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

³² As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

³⁴ In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

³⁵ I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”

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.

Compare

BSB: Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
KJV: And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
WEB: Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
ASV: And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
DARBY: And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
BLB: And your⁺ sons shall be shepherds wandering in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear the brunt of your⁺ infidelity, until your⁺ carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

ÅB: Og deres barn skal flakke om som hyrder i ørkenen i førti år og bøte for deres utroskap mot Herren, inntil dere alle er blitt til lik i ørkenen.
OTB: Barna deres vil være gjetere her i førti år, og bære konsekvensene av deres utroskap, til den siste av deres kropper ligger i ørkenen.
B1930: Og eders barn skal flakke om som hyrder i ørkenen i firti år og bøte for eders utroskap mot Herren, inntil I alle er blitt til lik i ørkenen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Numbers 32:13
The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
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Ezekiel 23:35
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”
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Psalms 107:40
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
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Deuteronomy 2:14
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
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Numbers 33:38
At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
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Numbers 5:31
The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
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Hosea 9:1
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
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Ezekiel 23:45–49
But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
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