New King James Version
Numbers 14:34
34According 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.
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 Living Translation (NLT)“‘Because your men explored the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years—a year for each day, suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.’
Context of Numbers 14:34
32But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. 33And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 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. 35I the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ” 36Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of 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 13:25And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
- Psalms 95:10For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’
- Ezekiel 4:6And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year.
- Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.
- Revelation 11:3And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
- Numbers 18:23But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
- Leviticus 20:19‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister nor of your father’s sister, for that would uncover his near of kin. They shall bear their guilt.
- Psalms 38:4For my iniquities have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
- Ezekiel 14:10And they shall bear their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired,
- 1 Kings 8:56“Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
- Psalms 77:8Has His mercy ceased forever? Has His promise failed forevermore?
- Psalms 105:42For He remembered His holy promise, And Abraham His servant.
- Jeremiah 18:9And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,
- Lamentations 3:31For the Lord will not cast off forever.
- Hebrews 4:1Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you 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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