Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. New Living Translation And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness. English Standard Version And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. Berean Standard Bible Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. King James Bible And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. New King James Version And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. New American Standard Bible Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness. NASB 1995 Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness. NASB 1977 ‘And your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they shall suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness. Legacy Standard Bible And your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses come to an end in the wilderness. Amplified Bible Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness. Christian Standard Bible Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for 40 years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness. American Standard Version And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. Contemporary English Version Your children will wander around in this desert 40 years, suffering because of your sins, until all of you are dead. English Revised Version And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness. GOD'S WORD® Translation Your children will be shepherds in the desert for 40 years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert. Good News Translation Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies. International Standard Version and your children will wander throughout the wilderness for 40 years. They'll bear the consequences of your idolatries until your bodies are entirely consumed in the wilderness. Majority Standard Bible Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. NET Bible and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness. New Heart English Bible Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. Webster's Bible Translation And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness. World English Bible Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand your sons are shepherding in the wilderness [for] forty years, and have borne your whoredoms until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness; Young's Literal Translation and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness; Smith's Literal Translation And your sons shall be fed in the desert forty years, and bear your fornications till your carcasses be finished in the desert. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleYour children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed ill the desert, Catholic Public Domain Version Your sons shall wander in the desert for forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers are consumed in the desert. New American Bible while your children will wander for forty years, suffering for your infidelity, till the last of you lies dead in the wilderness. New Revised Standard Version And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd your sons shall be shepherds forty years in this wilderness, and shall suffer for your whoredom until your corpses are consumed in this wilderness. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And your sons shall be Shepherds in this wilderness forty years and they shall bear your whoredom until your corpses are gone in this wilderness. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. Brenton Septuagint Translation And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God's Forgiveness and Judgment…32As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness. 33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. 34In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.… Cross References Deuteronomy 1:34-40 When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying, / “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers, / except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.” ... Psalm 95:10-11 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.” / So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.” Hebrews 3:17-19 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? / And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? / So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter. Joshua 5:6 For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. Ezekiel 20:15-16 Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands— / because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols. 1 Corinthians 10:5-11 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. / These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. / Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” ... Deuteronomy 2:14-15 The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them. / Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished. Nehemiah 9:21 For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. Acts 7:36-42 He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness. / This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ / He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us. ... Hebrews 4:1-2 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. / For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it. Deuteronomy 8:2-4 Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. / He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. / Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Psalm 78:32-33 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe. / So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror. 1 Corinthians 10:1-4 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. / They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. / They all ate the same spiritual food ... Ezekiel 20:23-24 However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. / For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers. Hebrews 3:8-11 do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. / Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ ... Treasury of Scripture And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your prostitutions, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. shall wander in the wilderness. Numbers 32:13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed. Joshua 14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. Psalm 107:4,40 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in… forty years Numbers 33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month. Deuteronomy 1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; Deuteronomy 2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. bear Numbers 5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity. Jeremiah 3:1,2 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD… Ezekiel 23:35,45-49 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms… Jump to Previous Bear Bodies Carcasses Children Consumed Corpses Dead Deeds Desert Evil Prostitution Punishment Shepherds Suffer Suffering Undergoing Unfaithfulness Wander Wanderers Waste Wasted Ways Whoredoms WildernessJump to Next Bear Bodies Carcasses Children Consumed Corpses Dead Deeds Desert Evil Prostitution Punishment Shepherds Suffer Suffering Undergoing Unfaithfulness Wander Wanderers Waste Wasted Ways Whoredoms WildernessNumbers 14 1. The people murmur at the news6. Joshua and Caleb labor to still them 11. God threatens them 13. Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon 26. The Murmurers are debarred from entering into the land 36. The men who raised the evil report die by a plague 40. The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten And your children The Hebrew word for "children" here is "בְּנֵיכֶם" (beneykhem), which signifies not just offspring but the continuation of a legacy. In the context of Israel, children were seen as the carriers of God's covenant promises. This phrase underscores the generational impact of the Israelites' actions, reminding us that our faithfulness or lack thereof can have profound effects on future generations. will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness until your bodies lie scattered in the wilderness Forty years.--The forty years were reckoned from the exodus, not from the return of the spies to Kadesh. (See Numbers 14:34 and Note.) And bear your whoredoms.--The children were doomed to bear the penalty of their fathers' apostasy. (Comp. Exodus 34:16.) Verse 33. - Your children shall wander. Literally, "shall pasture." רֹעִים. Septuagint, ἔσονται νεμόμενοι. It was not altogether a threat, for it implied that the Lord would be their Shepherd and would provide for their wants in their wanderings. Forty years. This period was made up by counting in the year and a half since the exodus. It was one of those many cases in which the word of God was fulfilled in the meaning and substance of it, but not in the letter. The delay which had already occurred was itself practically due to the same spirit of mutiny which had grown to a head at Kadesh; it was therefore strictly equitable to count it as part of the punishment inflicted (see on Deuteronomy 2:14). And bear your whoredoms. "Whoredom" had been already used (Exodus 34:16) as a synonym for idolatry in its aspect of spiritual unfaithfulness, and there is no reason to depart from that well-marked meaning here. That the Jews were guilty of idolatry in the wilderness is distinctly asserted (cf. Acts 7:42, 43); and these idolatrous practices, carried on no doubt in secret, must have been a sore trial to the generation which grew up amidst them (cf. Joshua 24:14, 23).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Your childrenוּ֠בְנֵיכֶם (ū·ḇə·nê·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 1121: A son will be יִהְי֨וּ (yih·yū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be shepherds רֹעִ֤ים (rō·‘îm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with in the wilderness בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ (bam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech for forty אַרְבָּעִ֣ים (’ar·bā·‘îm) Number - common plural Strong's 705: Forty years, שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8141: A year and they will suffer וְנָשְׂא֖וּ (wə·nā·śə·’ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take [for] your unfaithfulness זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם (zə·nū·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 2184: Adultery, infidelity, idolatry until עַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while the last תֹּ֥ם (tōm) Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 8552: To be complete or finished of your bodies פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖ם (piḡ·rê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 6297: A carcase, an idolatrous image lie scattered in the wilderness. בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ (bam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech Links Numbers 14:33 NIVNumbers 14:33 NLT Numbers 14:33 ESV Numbers 14:33 NASB Numbers 14:33 KJV Numbers 14:33 BibleApps.com Numbers 14:33 Biblia Paralela Numbers 14:33 Chinese Bible Numbers 14:33 French Bible Numbers 14:33 Catholic Bible OT Law: Numbers 14:33 Your children shall be wanderers (Nu Num.) |
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