Numbers 14:16 - Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to give to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ ‘The LORD wasn’t able to bring these people to the land that he solemnly promised to give them. So he slaughtered them in the desert.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ 'He was not able to lead the people into the land about which he had sworn. Therefore, he slew them in the wilderness.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn. Therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:16 Cross References

Exodus 32:12

Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

Numbers 14:17

And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great as thou has promised, saying,

Deuteronomy 9:28

lest the land from which thou didst bring us say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.”

Joshua 7:7

And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why hast thou brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!

Joshua 7:9

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?”