Numbers 14:12 - Easy To Read Version

¹² I will kill them all with a terrible sickness. I will destroy them, and I will use you to make another nation. And your nation will be greater and stronger than these people.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and will make of you [Moses] a nation greater and mightier than they.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

Common English Bible

¹² I’ll strike them down with a plague and disown them. Then I’ll make you into a great nation, stronger than they.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Therefore, I will strike them with a pestilence, and so I will consume them. But you I will make the ruler over a great nation, and one which is mightier than this one."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

Numbers 14:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 24:1

The Lord was angry against Israel again. The Lord caused David to turn against the Israelites. {David} said, “Go count the people of Israel and Judah.”

Exodus 32:10

So now let me destroy them in anger. Then I will make a great nation from you.”

Exodus 5:3

Then Aaron and Moses said, “The God of the Hebrew [42] people has talked with us. So we beg you to let us travel three days into the desert. There we will offer a sacrifice [43] to the Lord our God. If we don’t do this, he might become angry and destroy us. He might make us die from sickness or war.”

Ezekiel 20:13

“‘But the family of Israel turned against me in the desert. They did not follow my laws. They refused to obey my rules. \{And they are good rules\}—if a person obeys those rules, then he will live. They treated my special days of rest as if they were not important. They worked on those days many, many times. I decided to destroy them in the desert—to let them feel the full force of my anger.

Leviticus 26:25

You will have broken my Agreement, so I will punish you. I will bring armies against you. You will go into your cities for safety. But I will cause diseases to spread among you. And your enemies will defeat you.

Numbers 25:9

A total of 24,000 people died from that sickness.

Deuteronomy 28:21

The Lord will cause you to have terrible diseases until you are finished—destroyed from the land you are going to take.