Parallel Verses
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;
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;
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:
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 'Until when hath this evil company that which they are murmuring against Me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against Me, I have heard; 28 say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you; 29 in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;
Names
Cross References
Numbers 14:21
and yet, I live -- and it is filled -- the whole earth -- with the honour of Jehovah;
Numbers 14:23
they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;
Hebrews 3:17
but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
Numbers 14:2
and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, 'O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!
Numbers 26:64-65
and among these there hath not been a man of those numbered by Moses, and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai,
Numbers 32:11
They do not see -- the men who are coming up out of Egypt from a son of twenty years and upward -- the ground which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, for they have not been fully after Me;
Deuteronomy 1:35
Not one of these men of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,
Psalm 90:8-9
Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,