But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Parallel translations
- WEB But 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.
- KJV But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- BSB Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- NKJV But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- NLT Not one person on this list had been among those listed in the previous registration taken by Moses and Aaron in the wilderness of Sinai.
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Quick answer
Not one man of the first census remained, for all had died in the wilderness.
Overview
Comparing this census with the first at Sinai, the text observes that none of the original generation survived, just as God had decreed because of their unbelief at Kadesh (Numbers 14). This solemn fact shows that God keeps His warnings as surely as His promises, a sobering call to enter His rest by faith (Hebrews 3-4).
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- 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.
- Deut 4:3–4Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from among you.
- Heb 3:17With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- 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,
- 1 Cor 10:5However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- Num 1:1–2Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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