Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
- BSB When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
- NKJV “And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and took an oath, saying,
- NASB “Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and swore an oath, saying,
- NLT “When the Lord heard your complaining, he became very angry. So he solemnly swore,
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Cross-references · 6
- Num 14:22–30because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
- Heb 3:8–11don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
- Num 32:8–13Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
- Ezek 20:15Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
- Deut 2:14–15The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
- Ps 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
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