Numbers 14:16 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to give to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ ‘The LORD wasn’t able to bring these people to the land that he solemnly promised to give them. So he slaughtered them in the desert.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ 'He was not able to lead the people into the land about which he had sworn. Therefore, he slew them in the wilderness.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn. Therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ ‘It is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’

Numbers 14:16 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 32:12

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

Numbers 14:17

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

Deuteronomy 9:28

lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

Joshua 7:7

And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

Joshua 7:9

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?