Numbers 16:29 “If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all me…”

Numbers 16:29

If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.

World English Bible

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then the LORD hasn’t sent me.

American Standard Version

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me.

Geneva Bible 1599

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, the Lord hath not sent me.

Darby Translation

if these men die as all men die, and are visited with the visitation of all men, Jehovah has not sent me;

Young's Literal Translation

if according to the death of all men these die — or the charge of all men is charged upon them — Jehovah hath not sent me;

Bible in Basic English

If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me.

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Cross references

“visited”

Lamentations 4:22 Exodus 32:34 Job 35:15 Isaiah 10:3 Jeremiah 5:9 Exodus 20:5

Lamentations 4:22 · BSB

O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.

Exodus 32:34 · BSB

Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”

Job 35:15 · BSB

and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

Isaiah 10:3 · BSB

What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Jeremiah 5:9 · BSB

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

“the Lord”

1 Kings 22:28 2 Chronicles 18:27

1 Kings 22:28 · BSB

But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”

2 Chronicles 18:27 · BSB

But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”

Also

Ecclesiastes 3:19

Ecclesiastes 3:19 · BSB

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

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

In context

28Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things, for it was not my own doing:

30But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

Read Numbers 16