Numbers 14:29 - Easy To Read Version You will die in this desert. Every person who is 20 years old or older and was counted as one of my people will die. You complained against me, the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness–of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me, [Heb. 3:17-19.] American Standard Version (1901) your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, Common English Bible Your dead bodies will fall in this desert. None of you who were enlisted and were registered from 20 years old and above, who complained against me, Catholic Public Domain Version In the wilderness, here shall your carcasses lie. All you who were numbered from twenty years and above, and who have murmured against me, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me, |
I will remove all the people that turned against me and sinned against me. I will remove those people from your homeland. They will never again come to the Land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”
They counted every man who was 20 years old or older and able to serve in the army. Each man was listed with his family.
Many years before, in the Sinai desert, Moses and Aaron the priest counted the people of Israel. But all those people were dead. None of those people were still alive.
Why? Because the Lord told those people of Israel that they would all die in the desert. The only two men who were left alive were Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
But God was not pleased with most of those people. They were killed in the desert.
It was 38 years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until the time we crossed Zered Valley. All the fighting men of that generation in our camp had died. The Lord had sworn (promised) that that would happen.