Numbers 14:23

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.”

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BSBPD

“not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 14:23 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. Numbers 32:11‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
  3. Deuteronomy 1:35“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
  4. Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
  5. Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
  6. Psalms 106:26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
  7. Jeremiah 18:10and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
  8. Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
  9. Hebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  10. Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

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