Numbers 14 · Verse 33

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.
Numbers 14:33, King James Version

Numbers 14:33 in other translations

BSBYour 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.
WEBYour children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
ASVAnd your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
YLTand your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;
DARBYAnd your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
BBEAnd your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.
WebsterAnd your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness.

What does Numbers 14:33 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 14:33 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּ֠בְנֵיכֶםU.ve.nei.khemand children yourH1121
יִהְי֨וּyih.Yuthey will beH1961
רֹעִ֤יםro.'ImshepherdsH7462
בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705
שָׁנָ֔הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141
וְנָשְׂא֖וּve.na.se.'Uand they will bearH5375
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑םze.nu.tei.Khemprostitution yourH2184
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
תֹּ֥םtomare finishedH8552
פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖םpig.rei.Khemcorpses yourH6297
בַּמִּדְבָּֽר\׃ba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057

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Cross references for Numbers 14:33

  • Numbers 32:13

    And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.

  • Ezekiel 23:35

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

  • Psalms 107:40

    He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

  • Deuteronomy 2:14

    And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.

  • Numbers 33:38

    And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.

  • Numbers 5:31

    Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

  • Hosea 9:1

    Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

  • Ezekiel 23:45-49

    And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. For thus saith the Lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. …

  • Joshua 14:10

    And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

  • Jeremiah 3:1-2

    They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord. Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Deuteronomy 1:3

    And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them;

  • Psalms 107:4

    They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
shall wander in the wilderness. or, feed.This implies, that they should move from place to place in the deserts, as the Bedounin Arabs, who have no certain dwelling, but rove about seeking pasture for their flocks.
32:13; Jos 14:10; Ps 107:4,40
forty years.
33:38; De 1:3; 2:14
bear.
5:31; Jer 3:1,2; Eze 23:35,45-49; Ho 9:1

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Context

  • 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.

  • Numbers 14:34

    After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

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Numbers 14:33 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y vuestros hijos andarán pastoreando en el desierto cuarenta años, y ellos llevarán vuestras fornicaciones, hasta que vuestros cuerpos sean consumidos en el desierto.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et vos fils seront paissant dans le désert 40 ans, et ils porteront la peine de vos prostitutions, jusqu’à ce que vos cadavres soient consumés dans le désert.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und eure Kinder sollen vierzig Jahre lang in der Wüste weiden und eure Hurereien tragen, bis eure Leichname in der Wüste aufgerieben sind.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Filii vestri erunt vagi in deserto annis quadraginta, et portabunt fornicationem vestram, donec consumantur cadavera patrum in deserto,