New English Translation
Numbers 14:34
34According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
Numbers 14:34 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
- New International Version (NIV)For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'
- New King James Version (NKJV)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.
Context of Numbers 14:34
32But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, 33and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness. According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me. 35I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’” 36The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,
Read all of Numbers 14Numbers 14:34 word by word
בְּמִסְפַּ֨ר הַיָּמִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־תַּרְתֶּ֣ם אֶת־הָאָרֶץ֮ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים יוֹם֒ י֣וֹם לַשָּׁנָ֞ה י֣וֹם לַשָּׁנָ֗ה תִּשְׂאוּ֙ אֶת־עֲוֹנֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם אַרְבָּעִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־תְּנוּאָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- After the numberמִסְפָּרmispâr · numberH4557
- of the daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
- in which ye searchedתּוּרtûr · to spyH8446
- the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- fortyאַרְבָּעִים'arbâ‛îym · fortyH705
- for a yearשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141
- shall ye bearנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: guiltH5375
- your iniquitiesעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
- and ye shall knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
- my breach of promiseתְּנוּאָהtenû'âh · oppositionH8569
Cross-references for Numbers 14:34
- Numbers 13:25They returned from investigating the land after forty days.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. The land experienced its sabbatical years; it remained desolate for seventy years, as prophesied.
- Psalms 95:10For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’
- Ezekiel 4:6“When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days – I have assigned one day for each year.
- Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.
- Revelation 11:3And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.
- Numbers 18:23But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.
- Leviticus 20:19You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.
- Psalms 38:4For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.
- Ezekiel 14:10They will bear their punishment; the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave it
- 1 Kings 8:56“The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled!
- Psalms 77:8Has his loyal love disappeared forever? Has his promise failed forever?
- Psalms 105:42Yes, he remembered the sacred promise he made to Abraham his servant.
- Jeremiah 18:9And there are times when I promise to build up and establish a nation or kingdom.
- Lamentations 3:31For the Lord will not reject us forever.
- Hebrews 4:1Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.
Commentaries on Numbers 14:34
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 34After the number of the days - The spies were forty days in searching the land, and the people who rebelled on their evil report are condemned to wander forty years in the wilderness! Now let them make them a captain and go back to Egypt if they can. God had so hedged them about with his power and providence that they could neither go back to Egypt nor get forward to the promised land! God has provided innumerable spiritual blessings for mankind, but in…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 34My breach of promise - In the original, a word, found elsewhere only in Job 30:10, and meaning “my withdrawals” “my turning away.” See the margin.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-35Verses 20-35 The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them at their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were made to groan under the burden of their…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 34each day: Compare 13:25. My alienation: Compare Ezekiel 5:8; 21:3.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3434. ye shall know my breach of promise--that is, in consequence of your violation of the covenant betwixt you and Me, by breaking the terms of it, it shall be null and void on My part, as I shall withhold the blessings I promised in that covenant to confer on you on condition of your obedience.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Numbers 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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