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English Standard Version

Numbers 32:8

Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Disobedience to God;   Gilead;   Haste;   Israel;   Misjudgment;   Motive;   Uncharitableness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Kadesh-Barnea;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Gad, the Tribe of;   Reuben, the Tribe of;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gad;   Reuben;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ancestors;   Moses;   Palestine;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bashan;   Jaazer;   Kadesh Barnea;   Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gad;   Israel;   Kadesh;   Leopard;   Manasseh;   Reuben;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kadesh, Kadeshbarnea ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leopard;   Reuben;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'besh;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Reuben;   Wanderings of Israel;   Zin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land.
King James Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
Lexham English Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
New Century Version
Your ancestors did the same thing. I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look at the land.
New English Translation
Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
Amplified Bible
"This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land!
New American Standard Bible
"This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the lande.
Legacy Standard Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Contemporary English Version
This is exactly what happened when I sent your ancestors from Kadesh-Barnea to explore the land.
Complete Jewish Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land.
Darby Translation
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land:
Easy-to-Read Version
Your fathers did the same thing to me. In Kadesh Barnea I sent spies to look at the land.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Rakim-gia to spy out the land.
Good News Translation
That is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land.
Christian Standard Bible®
That’s what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Literal Translation
So your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus dyd youre fathers also, whan I sent them out from Cades Bernea, to spye out ye londe.
American Standard Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Bible in Basic English
So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus dyd your fathers when I sent them from Cades Brnea to see ye lande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
King James Version (1611)
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Did not your fathers thus, when I sent them from Cades Barne to spy out the land?
English Revised Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to look over the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether youre fadris diden not so, whanne Y sente fro Cades Barne to aspie the lond,
Young's Literal Translation
`Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land;
Update Bible Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
World English Bible
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
New King James Version
Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
New Living Translation
Your ancestors did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land.
New Life Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
New Revised Standard
Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, did your fathers, - when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea, to view the land,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land?
Revised Standard Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Ka'desh-bar'nea to see the land.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

Contextual Overview

1 Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock. 2 So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation, 3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, 4 the land that the Lord struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock." 5 And they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan." 6 But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here? 7 Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the Lord has given them? 8 Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9 For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them. 10 And the Lord 's anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 13:2-26, Numbers 14:2, Deuteronomy 1:22, Deuteronomy 1:23, Joshua 14:6, Joshua 14:7

Reciprocal: Numbers 13:3 - General Numbers 13:26 - Kadesh Numbers 34:4 - Kadeshbarnea Deuteronomy 1:34 - and sware Joshua 10:41 - Kadeshbarnea Joshua 15:3 - Zin

Cross-References

Genesis 32:1
Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Genesis 32:3
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,
Matthew 10:16
"Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus did your fathers,.... Meaning not particularly and only the fathers of these two tribes he was speaking to, but of them and the other tribes also, who acted much such a part; did not choose to go into the good land to possess it, when they were bid to do it, but were for sending spies first, which brought an ill report of it, and discouraged the people from going into it; the history of which Moses here gives:

when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land; called only Kadesh, Numbers 13:26 the reason of the name

Numbers 13:26- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your fathers - The generation of the Exodus was now substantially extinct. Compare Numbers 26:64-65.

Kadesh-barnea - See Numbers 13:26.


 
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