Numbers 14:31

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Summary

But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

Little ones

Numbers 26:6

Deuteronomy 1:39

Ye said

Numbers 14:3

The land

Bible References

Little ones

To Hezron, the family of the Hezronites, - To Carrel, the family of the Carmites.

And your little ones, of whom ye said they should become, a prey, and your sons who to-day know not good and evil, they, shall enter in thither, - and unto them, will I give it, and they, shall possess it.

Ye said

Wherefore then is Yahweh bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones, will become a prey! Would it not be well for us to go back towards Egypt?

The land

And Jacob, having given to Esau bread and a dish of lentils, he did eat and drink and rose up, and went his way, - thus Esau despised his birthright!

And they refused the delightful land, They believed not his word;

But ye dismissed all my counsel, and, to my rebuke, would not yield,

And, they, slighting it, went off, one, indeed, into his own field, and, another, unto his merchandise, -

See, ye despisers, and marvel, and disappear: in that, a work, am, I, working in your days, - a work, which in nowise will ye believe, though one relate it in full unto you.

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, like Esau, - who, for the sake of one meal, yielded up his own firstborn rights;