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God’s Forgiveness and Judgment

Numbers 14:31

In 11 translations

BSB
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
KJV
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
WEB
But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
ASV
But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
LSV
As for your infants—of whom you have said, They become a spoil—I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which you have kicked against;
YLT
'As to your infants — of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become — I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;
DBY
But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.
DRC
But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.
GNV
But your children, (which ye said shoulde be a pray) them will I bring in, and they shall knowe the lande which ye haue refused:
JPS
But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
LXXE
And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which ye rejected.Gr. from which ye turned away.

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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
וְטַ֨פְּכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם לָבַ֣ז יִהְיֶ֑ה וְהֵבֵיאתִ֣י אֹתָ֔ם וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מְאַסְתֶּ֖ם בָּֽהּ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ τὰ παιδία, ἃ εἴπατε ἐν διαρπαγῇ ἔσεσθαι, εἰσάξω αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν γῆν· καὶ κληρονομήσουσι τὴν γῆν, ἣν ὑμεῖς ἁπέστητε ἀπʼ αὐτῆς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 1:39And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
  • Psalms 106:24They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
  • Numbers 26:6the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and the Carmite clan from Carmi.
  • Numbers 14:3Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
  • 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.
  • Proverbs 1:30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
  • Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
  • Acts 13:41‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”
  • Genesis 25:34Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
  • Matthew 22:5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
  • Hebrews 12:16–17See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no…

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