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God’s Forgiveness and Judgment

Numbers 14:23

In 11 translations

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.
KJV
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:Surely…: Heb. If they see the land
WEB
surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
ASV
surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
LSV
they do not see the land which I have sworn to their fathers, indeed, none of those despising Me see it;
YLT
they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;
DBY
shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
DRC
Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.
GNV
Certainely they shall not see the lande, whereof I sware vnto their fathers: neither shall any that prouoke me, see it.
JPS
surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised Me see it.
LXXE
surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־יִרְאוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתִּי לַאֲבֹתָ֑ם וְכָל־מְנַאֲצַ֖י לֹ֥א יִרְאֽוּהָ׃
LXX-Br
ἦ μὴν οὐκ ὄψονται τὴν γῆν, ἣν ὤμοσα τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν· ἀλλʼ ἢ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν ἅ ἐστι μετʼ ἐμοῦ ὧδε, ὅσοι οὐκ οἴδασιν ἀγαθὸν οὐδὲ κακὸν, πᾶς νεώτερος ἄπειρος, τούτοις δώσω τὴν γῆν· πάντες δὲ οἱ παροξύναντές με, οὐκ ὄψονται αὐτήν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 32:11‘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 26:64Among 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.
  • Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
  • Hebrews 3:17–18And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
  • Deuteronomy 1:35–45“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers, except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set…
  • Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
  • Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
  • Psalms 106:26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
  • Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of…

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