Therefore He swore to them that He would make them fall in the desert,
Numbers 14:29 - Tree of Life Version In this very wilderness your bodies will drop—every one of you 20 years of age and older who was numbered in the census and grumbled against Me. 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, |
Therefore He swore to them that He would make them fall in the desert,
I will purge out the rebels from among you and those who transgress against Me. I will bring them out from the land where they dwell, but they will not enter the land of Israel. So you will know that I am Adonai.
So all those counted from Bnei-Yisrael, according to their ancestral houses, from 20 years old and up—all able to go out with the army in Israel—
Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the kohen when they counted Bnei-Yisrael in the Sinai wilderness,
because Adonai had said they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one of them was left, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert.
“The time that we traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Wadi Zered was 38 years—until all the generation of the men of war from within the camp came to an end, as Adonai had sworn to them.
And with whom was He provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
For Bnei-Yisrael walked 40 years in the wilderness, until all the nation’s men of war who came out of Egypt died out, because they had not listened to the voice of Adonai. To them Adonai had sworn that He would never let them see the land which Adonai had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Now I wish to remind you—though you have come to know all things —that the Lord, once having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.