Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.
Parallel translations
- KJV Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
- BSB But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
- NKJV “Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;
- NASB “Yet you were unwilling to go up; instead you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;
- NLT “But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God and refused to go in.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Num 14:1–4All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- Ps 106:24–25Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
- Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- Isa 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
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