Parallel Verses
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;
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:
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
Dabar
'ozen
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 14:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Promises Judgment
27
“How long shall I put up with this evil congregation who murmur [in discontent] against Me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they are making against Me.
28 Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just what you have spoken in My hearing I will most certainly do to you;
29
your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, even all who were numbered of you, your entire number from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me.
Names
Cross References
Numbers 14:21
but indeed as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.
Numbers 14:23
will by no means see the land which I swore to [give to] their fathers; nor will any who treated me disrespectfully and rejected Me see it.
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies were scattered in the desert?
Numbers 14:2
All the Israelites murmured [in discontent] against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 26:64-65
But among these there was not a man [left] of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel [for the first time] in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 32:11
‘None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not followed Me completely,
Deuteronomy 1:35
‘Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore (solemnly promised) to give to your fathers,
Psalm 90:8-9
You have placed our wickedness before you,
Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.