Numbers 14 · Verse 32

Numbers 14:32

But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:32, King James Version

Numbers 14:32 in other translations

BSBAs for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
WEBBut as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
ASVBut as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
YLTas to you--your carcases do fall in this wilderness,
DARBYAnd as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
BBEBut as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
WebsterBut as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.

What does Numbers 14:32 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…

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Numbers 14:32 in the original Hebrew

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וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖םu.fig.rei.Khemand corpses yourH6297
אַתֶּ֑ם'a.TemyouH859
יִפְּל֖וּyi.pe.Luthey will fallH5307
בַּמִּדְבָּ֥רba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
הַזֶּֽה\׃ha.Zeh<the> thisH2088

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 14:32

  • 1 Corinthians 10:5

    But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • 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,

  • 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?

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29; 1Co 10:5; Heb 3:17

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Context

  • Numbers 14:31

    But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

  • Numbers 14:32

    But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

  • Numbers 14:33

    And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

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Numbers 14:32 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y en cuanto á vosotros, vuestros cuerpos caerán en este desierto.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et quant à vous, vos cadavres tomberont dans ce désert.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ihr aber, eure Leichname sollen in dieser Wüste fallen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Vestra cadavera jacebunt in solitudine.