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Numbers 32:8

Kadesh-barnea

6 But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

7 Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

9 For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.

10 So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,

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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
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.
KJV
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
WEB
Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
ASV
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
DARBY
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land:
BLB
Thus did your⁺ fathers when I sent them away from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
ÅB
Det samme gjorde deres fedre da jeg sendte dem fra Kades-Barnea for å se på landet;
OTB
Dette er den samme handlingen deres fedre gjorde da jeg sendte dem fra Kadesj-Barnea for å undersøke landet.
B1930
Det samme gjorde eders fedre da jeg sendte dem fra Kades-Barnea for å se på landet;

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Numbers 13:2–26

    “Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”

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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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  • Joshua 14:6–7

    Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.

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  • Deuteronomy 1:19–25

    And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

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