Numbers 32:15

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“For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.””

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BSBPD

“For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 32:15 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
  2. Numbers 14:30Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  3. Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  4. Deuteronomy 30:17But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,
  5. Joshua 22:15They went to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and said to them,
  6. Joshua 22:16“This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day?
  7. Joshua 22:18And now, would you turn away from the LORD? If you rebel today against the LORD, tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
  8. 2 Chronicles 7:19But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
  9. 2 Chronicles 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
  10. Jeremiah 38:23All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
  11. Matthew 18:7Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
  12. Romans 14:15If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.
  13. Romans 14:20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
  14. 1 Corinthians 8:11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

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