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Numbers 14:28

New Living Translation

Now tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.

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Let them see their destruction with their own eyes. Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.

Therefore, he solemnly swore that he would kill them in the wilderness,

So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”

For I am the Lord! If I say it, it will happen. There will be no more delays, you rebels of Israel. I will fulfill my threat of destruction in your own lifetime. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship, and the Lord heard everything they said. Then the Lord’s anger blazed against them, and he sent a fire to rage among them, and he destroyed some of the people in the outskirts of the camp.

Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained.

But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,

They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it.

When Moses reported the Lord’s words to all the Israelites, the people were filled with grief.

‘Of all those I rescued from Egypt, no one who is twenty years old or older will ever see the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for they have not obeyed me wholeheartedly.

“When the Lord heard your complaining, he became very angry. So he solemnly swore,

‘Not one of you from this wicked generation will live to see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,

“Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the Lord had vowed would happen.

The Lord struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.

Now I raise my hand to heaven and declare, “As surely as I live,

And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness?




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