With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Parallel translations
- KJV But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
- BSB And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- NKJV Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
- NASB And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
- NLT And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness?
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- Num 14:29Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
- Num 14:32–33But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
- Num 14:22because 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;
- Num 26:64–65But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Deut 2:15–16Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
- Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
- 1 Cor 10:1–13Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
- Jer 9:22Speak, “Yahweh says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and no one will gather them.’”
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