KJV King James Version
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
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Numbers 14:11
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
ASV American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, ‘Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?
Surrounding context — Numbers 14
8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear [it], (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
14 And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land: [for] they have heard that thou LORD [art] among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, and [that] thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיֹּ֤אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָה֙H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)מֹשֶׁ֔הH4872 · mo.shehMosesעַד־H5704 · adtillאָ֥נָהH575 · anwhere?יְנַאֲצֻ֖נִיH5006 · na.atsto spurnהָעָ֣םH5971 · ampeopleהַזֶּ֑הH2088 · zehthisוְעַד־H5704 · adtillאָ֙נָה֙H575 · anwhere?לֹא־H3808 · lonotיַאֲמִ֣ינוּH539 · a.manbe faithfulבִ֔יH9030 · nimeבְּכֹל֙H3605 · kolallהָֽאֹת֔וֹתH226 · otsign: miraculousאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichעָשִׂ֖יתִיH6213 · a.sahto make: doבְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃H7130 · qe.reventrails: among
Cross-references
Psalm 78:32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.Psalm 106:24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:Psalm 78:22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:Deuteronomy 1:32Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,Psalm 78:41-42Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.Deuteronomy 9:22-23And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.Hebrews 3:8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:Numbers 14:23Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:Numbers 14:27How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.John 12:37But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:Hebrews 3:16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.Hebrews 3:18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?Deuteronomy 9:7-8Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.Exodus 16:28And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?Zechariah 8:14For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:Exodus 10:3And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?Hosea 8:5Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to innocency?
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