Parallel Verses
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:
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.
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:
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;
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
Dabar
'ozen
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 14:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Promises Judgment
27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears. 28 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: 29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,
Names
Cross References
Numbers 14:21
But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;
Numbers 14:23
They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?
Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
Numbers 26:64-65
But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.
Numbers 32:11
Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;
Deuteronomy 1:35
Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,