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God’s Forgiveness and Judgment

Numbers 14:28

In 11 translations

BSB
So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
KJV
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
WEB
Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.
ASV
Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
LSV
say to them: As I live—a declaration of YHWH—if, as you have spoken in My ears, do I not do so to you?
YLT
say unto them, I live — an affirmation of Jehovah — if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears — so I do not to you;
DBY
Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
DRC
Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.
GNV
Tell them, As I liue (saith the Lord) I wil surely do vnto you, euen as ye haue spoken in mine eares.
JPS
Say unto them: As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in Mine ears, so will I do to you:
LXXE
Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֱמֹ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם חַי־אָ֨נִי֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה אִם־לֹ֕א כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּרְתֶּ֖ם בְּאָזְנָ֑י כֵּ֖ן אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה לָכֶֽם׃
LXX-Br
Εἶπον αὐτοῖς, ζῶ ἐγὼ, λέγει Κύριος· ἦ μὴν ὃν τρόπον λελαλήκατε εἰς τὰ ὦτά μου, οὕτω ποιήσω ὑμῖν.

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  • Numbers 14:21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
  • Hebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  • Numbers 14:2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
  • Numbers 14:23not 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.
  • Deuteronomy 1:35“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
  • Numbers 26:64–65Among 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. For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the…
  • Psalms 90:8–9You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
  • 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—

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