Numbers 14:28 “So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you…”

Numbers 14:28

So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

World English Bible

Tell them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

American Standard Version

Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Geneva Bible 1599

Tell them, As I liue (saith the Lord) I wil surely do vnto you, euen as ye haue spoken in mine eares.

Darby Translation

Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!

Young's Literal Translation

say unto them, I live — an affirmation of Jehovah — if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears — so I do not to you;

Bible in Basic English

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:

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Cross references

“As truly”

Numbers 14:21 Hebrews 3:17 Numbers 14:23 Deuteronomy 1:35 Numbers 32:11 Numbers 26:64

Numbers 14:21 · BSB

“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

Hebrews 3:17 · BSB

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Numbers 14:23 · BSB

not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

Deuteronomy 1:35 · BSB

“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

Numbers 32:11 · BSB

‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—

Numbers 26:64 · BSB

Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

Also

Numbers 14:2

Numbers 14:2 · BSB

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.

29Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

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