Numbers 32:15 “For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this…”

Numbers 32:15

For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

World English Bible

For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”

American Standard Version

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.

Geneva Bible 1599

For if ye turne away from following him, he will yet againe leaue the people in the wildernesse, and ye shall destroy all this folke.

Darby Translation

If ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

Young's Literal Translation

when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'

Bible in Basic English

For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

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Cross references

“if ye turn”

2 Chronicles 15:2 Leviticus 26:14–18 Deuteronomy 28:15–68 Deuteronomy 30:17–19 Joshua 22:16–18 2 Chronicles 7:19–22

2 Chronicles 15:2 · BSB

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you…

Leviticus 26:14–18 · BSB

If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

Deuteronomy 28:15–68 · BSB

If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 30:17–19 · BSB

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

Joshua 22:16–18 · BSB

“This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might r…

2 Chronicles 7:19–22 · BSB

But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

“he will yet”

Numbers 14:30–35

Numbers 14:30–35 · BSB

Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

“ye shall”

Matthew 18:7 Romans 14:15 Jeremiah 38:23 Romans 14:20 Romans 14:21 1 Corinthians 8:11

Matthew 18:7 · BSB

Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

Romans 14:15 · BSB

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

Jeremiah 38:23 · BSB

All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”

Romans 14:20 · BSB

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

Romans 14:21 · BSB

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

1 Corinthians 8:11 · BSB

So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

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

In context

14Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

16Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.

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