KJV King James Version
For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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Numbers 26:65
For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
WEB World English Bible
For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
ASV American Standard Version
For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for Jehovah said of them, ‘They do certainly die in the wilderness;’ and there hath not been left of them a man save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.
Surrounding context — Numbers 26
62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
63 These [are] they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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כִּֽי־H3588 · kiforאָמַ֤רH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָה֙H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDלָהֶ֔םH9038 · hemthemמ֥וֹתH4191 · mutto dieיָמֻ֖תוּH4191 · mutto dieבַּמִּדְבָּ֑רH4057 · mid.barmouthוְלֹא־H3808 · lonotנוֹתַ֤רH3498 · ya.tarto remainמֵהֶם֙H9038 · hemthemאִ֔ישׁH376 · ishmanכִּ֚יH3588 · kiforאִם־H518 · imifכָּלֵ֣בH3612 · ka.levCalebבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childיְפֻנֶּ֔הH3312 · ye.phun.nehJephunnehוִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַH3091 · ye.ho.shu.aJoshuaבִּן־H1121 · benson: childנֽוּן׃ סH5126 · nunNun
Cross-references
1 Corinthians 10:5-6But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.Numbers 14:38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still].Romans 11:22Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.Hebrews 3:17-18But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?Numbers 14:28-30Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:Psalm 90:3-7Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.Numbers 14:35I 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.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.Deuteronomy 2:14-15And 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.Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.Deuteronomy 32:49-50Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, [unto] mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, that [is] over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:Numbers 14:23-24Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:Joshua 14:6-10Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
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