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Read›Numbers›Chapter 14

Israel’s Rebellion

Numbers 14:12

In 11 translations

BSB
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
KJV
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
WEB
I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
ASV
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
LSV
I strike it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make you become a nation greater and mightier than it.”
YLT
I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'
DBY
I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
DRC
I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.
GNV
I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and mightier then they.
JPS
I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.'
LXXE
I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אַכֶּ֥נּוּ בַדֶּ֖בֶר וְאוֹרִשֶׁ֑נּוּ וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ אֹֽתְךָ֔ לְגוֹי־גָּד֥וֹל וְעָצ֖וּם מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃
LXX-Br
Πατάξω αὐτοὺς θανάτῳ, καὶ ἀπολῶ αὐτούς· καὶ ποιήσω σε καὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ πατρός σου εἰς ἔθνος μέγα, καὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦτο.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 32:10Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
  • Numbers 16:46–49Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.” So…
  • Numbers 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
  • 2 Samuel 24:1Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
  • Exodus 5:3“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
  • 2 Samuel 24:12–15“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’” So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of…

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