KJV King James Version
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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Numbers 14:37
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;
Surrounding context — Numbers 14
34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still].
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here], and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
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Numbers 16:49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.1 Corinthians 10:10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.Hebrews 3:17But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?Numbers 14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.Jeremiah 28:16-17Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.Jeremiah 29:32Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.Jude 1:5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.Numbers 25:9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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