Numbers 32:23
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Numbers 32:23 in other translations
| BSB | But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out. |
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| WEB | “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out. |
| ASV | But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against Jehovah; and be sure your sin will find you out. |
| YLT | ‘And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you; |
| DARBY | But if ye do not do so, behold, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and be sure your sin will find you out. |
| BBE | But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward. |
| Webster | But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. |
What does Numbers 32:23 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 32:20-33
20-33. Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing--with sincerity and zeal. go before the Lord to war--The phrase was used in allusion to the order of march in which the tribes of Reuben and Gad immediately preceded the ark (see on Nu 2:10-31), or to the passage over the Jordan, in which the ark stood in mid-channel, while all the tribes marched by in succession (Jos 3:4), of course including those of Reuben and…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 32:16-27
Here is the good effect of plain dealing. Moses, by showing their sin, and the danger of it, brought them to their duty, without murmuring or disputing. All men ought to consider the interests of others as well as their own; the law of love requires us to labour, venture, or suffer for each other as there may be occasion. They propose that their men of war should go ready armed before the children of Israel into the…
Numbers 32:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 32:23
- Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
- Proverbs 13:21
Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
- Genesis 44:16
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
- Psalms 90:8
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- Genesis 4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
- Romans 2:9
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
- Deuteronomy 28:15-68
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. …
- Isaiah 3:11
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
- Isaiah 59:1-2
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
- Psalms 140:11
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
- Psalms 139:11
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Le 26:14-46; De 28:15-68
be sure your sin.If the persons concerned prevaricated, and so imposed on men, or if they afterwards refused to fulfil their engagement, God would most certainly detect and expose their wickedness, and inflict condign punishment upon them. Of all the ways, says Dr. South, to be taken for the prevention of that great plague of mankind, Sin, there is none so rational and efficacious as to confute and baffle those motives by which men are induced to embrace it; and among all such motives, the heart of man seems to be chiefly overpowered and prevailed upon by two, viz. secrecy in committing sin, and impunity with respect to its consequences. Accordingly, Moses, in this chapter, having to deal with a company of men suspected of a base and fraudulent design, though couched under a very fair pretence, as most such designs are, endeavours to quash it in its very conception, by secretly applying himself to encounter those secret motives and arguments, which he knew were the most likely to encourage them in it. And this he does very briefly, but effectually, by assuring them, that how covertly and artificially soever they might carry on their dark project, yet their sin would infallibly find them out. Though the subject and occasion of these words are indeed particular, yet the design of them is manifestly of an universal import, as reaching the case of all transgressors, in their first entrance on any sinful act or course.
Ge 4:7; 44:16; Ps 90:8; 139:11; 140:11; Pr 13:21; Isa 3:11
Isa 59:1,2,12; Ro 2:9; 1Co 4:5
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Context
- Numbers 32:22
And the land be subdued before the Lord: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.
- Numbers 32:23
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.
- Numbers 32:24
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Numbers 32:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas si así no lo hiciereis, he aquí habréis pecado á Jehová; y sabed que os alcanzará vuestro pecado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais si vous ne faites pas ainsi, voici, vous pécherez contre l’ Éternel; et sachez que votre péché vous trouvera. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn ihr aber nicht also tut, siehe, so habt ihr wider Jehova gesündigt; und wisset, daß eure Sünde euch finden wird. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sin autem quod dicitis, non feceritis, nulli dubium est quin peccetis in Deum: et scitote quoniam peccatum vestrum apprehendet vos. |