Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.
Numbers 14:31 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But your little ones whom you said would be a prey, them will I bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised and rejected. American Standard Version (1901) But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. Common English Bible But your children, whom you said would be taken by force, I’ll bring them in and they will know the land that you rejected. Catholic Public Domain Version But your little ones, about whom you said that they would be a prey to the enemies, I will lead them in, so that they may see the land that has displeased you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised. |
Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.
So their descendants went in and possessed the land: You subdued the Canaanites who inhabited the land before them and handed their kings and the surrounding peoples over to them, to do as they pleased with them.
‘ “Then I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.
Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt? ’
But among them there was not one of those who had been registered by Moses and the priest Aaron when they registered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
‘But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business,
Look, you scoffers, marvel and vanish away, because I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will never believe, even if someone were to explain it to you.’ ,
Your children, who you said would be plunder, your sons who don’t yet know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.
He raised up their sons in their place; it was these Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.