Numbers 14:34 “In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear…”

Numbers 14:34

In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

World English Bible

After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’

American Standard Version

After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

Geneva Bible 1599

After the number of the dayes, in the which ye searched out the lande, euen fourtie dayes, euery day for a yeere, shall ye beare your iniquity, for fourtie yeeres, and ye shall feele my breach of promise.

Darby Translation

After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement [from you].

Young's Literal Translation

by the number of the days [in] which ye spied the land, forty days, — a day for a year, a day for a year — ye do bear your iniquities, forty years, and ye have known my breaking off;

Bible in Basic English

And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.

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Cross references

“After”

Numbers 13:25 2 Chronicles 36:21

Numbers 13:25 · BSB

After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

2 Chronicles 36:21 · BSB

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.

“the number”

Ezekiel 4:6 Daniel 9:24 Psalm 95:10 Revelation 11:3

Ezekiel 4:6 · BSB

When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

Daniel 9:24 · BSB

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and t…

Psalm 95:10 · BSB

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

Revelation 11:3 · BSB

And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

“shall ye bear”

Numbers 18:23 Leviticus 20:19 Psalm 38:4 Ezekiel 14:10

Numbers 18:23 · BSB

The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

Leviticus 20:19 · BSB

You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

Psalm 38:4 · BSB

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

Ezekiel 14:10 · BSB

They will bear their punishment—the punishment of the inquirer will be the same as that of the prophet—

“ye shall”

Hebrews 4:1 1 Kings 8:56 Psalm 77:8 Psalm 105:42 Lamentations 3:31–33 Jeremiah 18:9

Hebrews 4:1 · BSB

Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.

1 Kings 8:56 · BSB

“Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses.

Psalm 77:8 · BSB

Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?

Psalm 105:42 · BSB

For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

Lamentations 3:31–33 · BSB

For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

Jeremiah 18:9 · BSB

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

“breach of promise”

1 Samuel 2:30 Zechariah 11:10 Deuteronomy 31:16 Deuteronomy 31:17

1 Samuel 2:30 · BSB

Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who hono…

Zechariah 11:10 · BSB

Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

Deuteronomy 31:16 · BSB

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant…

Deuteronomy 31:17 · BSB

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not the…

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

In context

33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

35I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”

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