Numbers 14:18
New King James Version
18 (A)‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, (B)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’
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Numbers 14:18
New International Version
18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.(A) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’(B)
Numbers 14:20-23
New King James Version
20 Then the Lord said: “I have pardoned, (A)according to your word; 21 but truly, as I live, (B)all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord— 22 (C)because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now (D)these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, 23 they certainly shall not (E)see the land of which I [a]swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.
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- Numbers 14:23 solemnly promised
Numbers 14:20-23
New International Version
20 The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them,(A) as you asked. 21 Nevertheless, as surely as I live(B) and as surely as the glory of the Lord(C) fills the whole earth,(D) 22 not one of those who saw my glory and the signs(E) I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times(F)— 23 not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath(G) to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt(H) will ever see it.(I)
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