Numbers 14:34

New American Bible - revised edition

Corresponding to the number of days you spent reconnoitering the land—forty days—you shall bear your punishment one year for each day: forty years. Thus you will realize what it means to oppose me.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:56

“Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, just as he promised. Not a single word has gone unfulfilled of the entire gracious promise he made through Moses his servant.

2 Chronicles 36:21

All this was to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah: Until the land has retrieved its lost sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are fulfilled. Decree of Cyrus.

Psalm 105:42

For he remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.

Psalm 38:4

There is no wholesomeness in my flesh because of your anger; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 77:8

“Will the Lord reject us forever, never again show favor?

Psalm 95:10

Forty years I loathed that generation; I said: “This people’s heart goes astray; they do not know my ways.”

Ezekiel 14:10

They will be punished for their own sins, the inquirer and the prophet alike,

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore thus says the Lord God: You have forgotten me and cast me behind your back; now suffer for your depravity and prostitution.

Ezekiel 4:5

I allot you three hundred and ninety days during which you must bear the guilt of the house of Israel, the same number of years they sinned.

Ezekiel 4:6

When you have completed this, you shall lie down a second time, on your right side to bear the guilt of the house of Judah forty days; I allot you one day for each year.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and for your holy city: Then transgression will stop and sin will end, guilt will be expiated, Everlasting justice will be introduced, vision and prophecy ratified, and a holy of holies will be anointed.

Hosea 9:12

Even though they bring up their children, I will make them childless, until no one is left. Indeed, woe to them when I turn away from them!

Leviticus 20:19

You shall not have intercourse with your mother’s sister or your father’s sister, because that dishonors one’s own flesh; they shall bear their penalty.

Zechariah 11:10

Then I took my staff Delight and snapped it in two, breaking my covenant which I had made with all peoples.

Numbers 13:25

They returned from reconnoitering the land forty days later.

Numbers 18:23

Only the Levites are to perform the labor pertaining to the tent of meeting, and they shall incur the penalty for the Israelites’ sin; this is a permanent statute for all your generations. But they shall not have any heritage among the Israelites,

Numbers 32:13

So the anger of the Lord flared up against the Israelites and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord had disappeared.

Acts 13:18

and for about forty years he put up with them in the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:7

Surely, the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned about your journey through this vast wilderness. It is now forty years that the Lord, your God, has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.

Hebrews 4:1

Therefore, let us be on our guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed.

Joshua 14:10

Now, as he promised, the Lord has preserved me these forty-five years since the Lord spoke thus to Moses while Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now I am eighty-five years old,

Revelation 11:3

I will commission my two witnesses to prophesy for those twelve hundred and sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”

1 Samuel 2:30

This, therefore, is the oracle of the Lord, the God of Israel: I said in the past that your family and your father’s house should minister in my presence forever. But now—oracle of the Lord: Far be it from me! I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me shall be cursed.