Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee on the way.

New American Standard Bible

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

King James Version

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

Holman Bible

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

International Standard Version

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I won't go up among you, because you are an obstinate people, and otherwise I might consume you along the way."

American Standard Version

unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiffnecked people, lest I consume thee in the way.

Amplified

Go up to a land [of abundance] flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are a stiff-necked (stubborn, rebellious) people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

Bible in Basic English

Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

Darby Translation

into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee on the way.

Julia Smith Translation

To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a people of a hard neck; lest I shall consume thee in the way.

King James 2000

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume you in the way.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[Go] to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up among you, because you [are] a stiff-necked people, lest I destroy you on the way."

Modern King James verseion

to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that thou mayest go in to a land that floweth with milk and honey. But I will not go among you myself, for ye are a stiffnecked people: lest I consume you by the way."

NET Bible

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way."

New Heart English Bible

to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

The Emphasized Bible

into a land flowing with milk and honey, - for I will not go up in thy midst in that a stiff-necked people, thou art, lest I consume thee in the way.

Webster

To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

World English Bible

to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

Youngs Literal Translation

unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in thy midst, for thou art a stiff-necked people -- lest I consume thee in the way.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

זוּב 
Zuwb 
Usage: 42

with milk
חלב 
Chalab 
Usage: 44

and honey
דּבשׁ 
D@bash 
Usage: 54

for I will not go up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

in the midst
קרב 
Qereb 
Usage: 226

of thee for thou art a stiffnecked
קשׁה 
Qasheh 
Usage: 36

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Command To Resume Travel

2 And I will send a [heavenly] agent before thee, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite-- 3 to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee on the way. 4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned, and no man put his ornaments on him.


Cross References

Exodus 3:8

And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the A

Exodus 32:9-10

And LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

Exodus 33:15-17

And Moses said to him, If thy presence go not, do not carry us up from here.

Numbers 16:21

Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

Numbers 16:45

Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

Exodus 13:5

And it shall be, when LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that th

Exodus 23:21

Take ye heed before him, and hearken to his voice, provoke him not. For he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

Exodus 32:14

And LORD relented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

Exodus 34:9

And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

Leviticus 20:24

But I have said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

Numbers 13:27

And they told him, and said, We came to the land where thou sent us. And surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it.

Numbers 14:8

If LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.

Numbers 14:12

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

Numbers 16:13

Is it a small thing that thou have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must make thyself also a ruler over us?

Deuteronomy 9:6-13

Know therefore, that LORD thy God does not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness, for thou are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 32:26-27

I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

Joshua 5:6

For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness till all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not hearken to the voice of LORD, to whom LORD swore that he would no

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore LORD, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever, but now LORD says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me

Psalm 78:8

and might not be as their fathers: a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Jeremiah 11:5

that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then I answered, and said, Amen, O LORD.

Jeremiah 18:7-10

At that instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,

Ezekiel 3:18-19

When I say to a wicked man, Thou shall surely die, and thou give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked man from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at

Ezekiel 33:13-16

When I say to the righteous man, that he shall surely live, if he trusts his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his iniquity that he has committed, in it he shall die.

Amos 3:13-14

Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, says lord LORD, the God of hosts.

Jonah 3:4

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Jonah 3:10

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Acts 7:51

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.

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