Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
New American Standard Bible
Say to them, ‘
King James Version
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Holman Bible
Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the Lord’s declaration, “I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
International Standard Version
So tell them that as long as I live consider this to be an oracle from the LORD as certainly as you've spoken right into my ears, that's how I'm going to treat you.
A Conservative Version
Say to them, As I live, says LORD, surely as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.
Amplified
Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just what you have spoken in My hearing I will most certainly do to you;
Bible in Basic English
Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:
Darby Translation
Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
Julia Smith Translation
Say to them, I live, says Jehovah, if not as ye spake in mine ears, so will I do to you:
King James 2000
Say unto them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Say to them, 'Surely as I live,' {declares} Yahweh, 'just as you spoke {in my hearing}, so I will do to you;
Modern King James verseion
Say to them, As I live, says Jehovah, as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Tell them that the LORD sayeth, 'As truly as I live, I will do unto you even as ye have spoken in mine ears.
NET Bible
Say to them, 'As I live, says the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.
New Heart English Bible
Tell them, 'As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
The Emphasized Bible
Say unto them: As I live, is the oracle of Yahweh: Surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so, will I do unto you: -
Webster
Say to them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
World English Bible
Tell them, 'As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
Youngs Literal Translation
say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you;
Themes
Holy spirit » Instances of » israelites
Israel » Judgment of God » Unbelief » Complaints » Consequences
Judgments » The forty years of wandering, a judgment
Oaths » God used, to show the immutability of his counsel
Reprobacy » Instances of » Israel
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 14:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Promises Judgment
27 How long'shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28 Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,
Names
Cross References
Numbers 14:21
but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah;
Numbers 14:23
surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 26:64-65
But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Deuteronomy 1:35
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Psalm 90:8-9
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.