Numbers 32:8
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.
Numbers 32:8 in other translations
| BSB | This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | ‘Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land; |
| DARBY | Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land: |
| BBE | So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. |
| Webster | Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. |
What does Numbers 32:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 32:6-19
6-19. Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here--Their language was ambiguous; and Moses, suspicious that this proposal was an act of unbelief, a scheme of self-policy and indolence to escape the perils of warfare and live in ease and safety, addressed to them a reproachful and passionate remonstrance. Whether they had really meditated…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 32:6-15
The proposal showed disregard to the land of Canaan, distrust of the Lord's promise, and unwillingness to encounter the difficulties and dangers of conquering and driving out the inhabitants of that land. Moses is wroth with them. It will becomes any of God's Israel to sit down unconcerned about the difficult and perilous concerns of their brethren, whether public or personal. He reminds them of the fatal…
Numbers 32:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 32:8
- 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. And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. …
- 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!
- 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. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh–barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
- 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. And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. …
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Context
- Numbers 32:7
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?
- Numbers 32:8
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.
- Numbers 32:9
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.
Numbers 32:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Así hicieron vuestros padres, cuando los envié desde Cades-barnea para que viesen la tierra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ainsi firent vos pères lorsque je les envoyai de Kadès-Barnéa pour voir le pays: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So haben eure Väter getan, als ich sie von Kades-Barnea aussandte, das Land zu besehen: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Nonne ita egerunt patres vestri, quando misi de Cadesbarne ad explorandam terram? |