Verse 35

Numbers 14:35

Bible in Basic English

35 I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֲנִ֣י יְהוָה֮ דִּבַּרְתִּי֒ אִם לֹ֣א זֹ֣את אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֗ה לְ/כָל הָ/עֵדָ֤ה הָֽ/רָעָה֙ הַ/זֹּ֔את הַ/נּוֹעָדִ֖ים עָלָ֑/י בַּ/מִּדְבָּ֥ר הַ/זֶּ֛ה יִתַּ֖מּוּ וְ/שָׁ֥ם יָמֻֽתוּ
English Translation
I am the Lord; I have spoken; if not this, I will do to all this evil congregation that are gathered against me in this wilderness; they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 14 Context
1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping. Focus ↗
2 And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our... Focus ↗
3 Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little... Focus ↗
4 And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt. Focus ↗
5 Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people. Focus ↗
6 And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the la... Focus ↗
7 Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land. Focus ↗
8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing... Focus ↗
9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food;... Focus ↗
10 But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of m... Focus ↗
11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be... Focus ↗
12 I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of... Focus ↗
13 And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you to... Focus ↗
14 And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are prese... Focus ↗
15 Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory... Focus ↗
16 Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them,... Focus ↗
17 So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said: Focus ↗
18 The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wron... Focus ↗
19 May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mer... Focus ↗
20 And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say: Focus ↗
21 But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord; Focus ↗
22 Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wast... Focus ↗
23 They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I h... Focus ↗
24 But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his... Focus ↗
25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste... Focus ↗
26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Focus ↗
27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they sa... Focus ↗
28 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainl... Focus ↗
29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twen... Focus ↗
30 Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only... Focus ↗
31 And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see... Focus ↗
32 But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land. Focus ↗
33 And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for you... Focus ↗
34 And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day... Focus ↗
35 I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together...
36 And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were... Focus ↗
37 Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord. Focus ↗
38 But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were... Focus ↗
39 And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief. Focus ↗
40 And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we... Focus ↗
41 And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it... Focus ↗
42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against... Focus ↗
43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their sw... Focus ↗
44 But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ar... Focus ↗
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame... Focus ↗