Numbers 14:28

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“So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.”

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BSBPD

“So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“say unto them, I live--an affirmation of Jehovah--if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears--so I do not to you;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 14:28 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 14:2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
  2. Numbers 14:21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
  3. Numbers 14:23not 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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—
  6. Deuteronomy 1:35“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
  7. Deuteronomy 32:40For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
  8. Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
  9. Psalms 106:26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
  10. Hebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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