Numbers 14:31-35

New American Standard Bible

³¹^(A)Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. ³²^(B)But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. ³³Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for ^(C)forty years, and they will ^[a]suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness. ³⁴In accordance with the ^(D)number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your ^[b]guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition. ³⁵^(E)I, the Lord, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness, and there they shall die.’”

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Footnotes

Numbers 14:33 Lit bear
Numbers 14:34 Or wrongdoings

Numbers 14:31-35

Amplified Bible

³¹But your children whom you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they will know the land which you have despised and rejected. ³²But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. ³³Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness. ³⁴According to the number of days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], forty days, for each day, you shall bear and suffer a year for your sins and guilt, for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement because of your sin]. ³⁵I, the Lord, have spoken. I will most certainly do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, and plagues], and here they shall die.’”^(A)

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Numbers 14:31-35

New International Version

³¹As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.^(A) ³²But as for you, your bodies will fall^(B) in this wilderness. ³³Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,^(C) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. ³⁴For forty years^(D)—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land^(E)—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’ ³⁵I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things^(F) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.^(G)”