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Numbers 32:8

Kadesh-barnea

6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

9 For 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 the LORD had given them.

10 And the LORD’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, 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;

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Cross references

  • Numbers 13:2–26

    Send thou men, that they may search 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 ruler among them.

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  • Numbers 14:2

    And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

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  • Joshua 14:6–7

    Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.

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  • Deuteronomy 1:19–25

    And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

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