Numbers 14:28
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Numbers 14:28 in other translations
| BSB | So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. |
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| 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: |
| YLT | say unto them, I live--an affirmation of Jehovah--if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears--so I do not 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! |
| BBE | Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you: |
| Webster | Say to them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: |
What does Numbers 14:28 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 14:20-35
The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them at their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were made to groan…
Numbers 14:28 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 14:28
- Numbers 14:21
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
- Hebrews 3:17
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
- 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!
- Deuteronomy 1:35
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
- Numbers 14:23
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
- Numbers 26:64-65
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
- Psalms 90:8-9
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
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Context
- Numbers 14:27
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
- Numbers 14:28
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
- Numbers 14:29
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,
Numbers 14:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Diles: Vivo yo, dice Jehová, que según habéis hablado á mis oídos, así haré yo con vosotros: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Dis-leur: Je suis vivant, dit l’ Éternel, si je ne vous fais comme vous avez parlé à mes oreilles…! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sprich zu ihnen: So wahr ich lebe, spricht Jehova, wenn ich euch nicht also tun werde, wie ihr vor meinen Ohren geredet habt! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dic ergo eis: Vivo ego, ait Dominus: sicut locuti estis audiente me, sic faciam vobis. |