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Literal Standard Version

Numbers 14:20

And YHWH says, "I have forgiven according to your word,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Intercession;   Israel;   Moses;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Pardon;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Mediator;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Spirituality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dispensations;   Gibeonites;   Numbers, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Israel;   Moses;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Pardon;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Caleb;   Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Numbers, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Hafṭarah;   Kol Nidre;   Seliḥah;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word:
King James Version
And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh said, "I have forgiven them according to your word;
New Century Version
The Lord answered, "I have forgiven them as you asked.
New English Translation
Then the Lord said, "I have forgiven them as you asked.
Amplified Bible
So the LORD said, "I have pardoned them according to your word;
New American Standard Bible
So the LORD said, "I have forgiven them in accordance with your word;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord said, I haue forgiuen it, according to thy request.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Yahweh said, "I have pardoned them according to your word;
Contemporary English Version
Then the Lord said to Moses: In answer to your prayer, I do forgive them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai answered, "I have forgiven, as you have asked.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord answered, "Yes, I will forgive the people as you asked.
English Standard Version
Then the Lord said, "I have pardoned, according to your word.
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said to Moses, I have forgiven them according to your word;
Good News Translation
The Lord answered, "I will forgive them, as you have asked.
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord responded, “I have pardoned them as you requested.
Literal Translation
And Jehovah said, I have forgiven according to your word;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE sayde: I haue forgeue it, as thou hast saide.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde sayde: I haue forgeuen it, according to thy request.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD said: 'I have pardoned according to thy word.
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord said, I haue pardoned, according to thy word.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to thy word.
English Revised Version
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
Berean Standard Bible
"I have pardoned them as you requested," the LORD replied.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide, Y haue foryouun to hem, bi thi word.
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith, `I have forgiven, according to thy word;
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word:
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
World English Bible
Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word:
New King James Version
Then the LORD said: "I have pardoned, according to your word;
New Living Translation
Then the Lord said, "I will pardon them as you have requested.
New Life Bible
So the Lord said, "I have forgiven them as you asked.
New Revised Standard
Then the Lord said, "I do forgive, just as you have asked;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to thy word;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.
Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD said, "I have pardoned, according to your word;
THE MESSAGE
God said, "I forgive them, honoring your words. But as I live and as the Glory of God fills the whole Earth—not a single person of those who saw my Glory, saw the miracle signs I did in Egypt and the wilderness, and who have tested me over and over and over again, turning a deaf ear to me—not one of them will set eyes on the land I so solemnly promised to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with such repeated contempt will see it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the LORD said, "I have pardoned them according to your word;

Contextual Overview

20And YHWH says, "I have forgiven according to your word,21but nevertheless, as I live, indeed, the whole earth is filled [with] the glory of YHWH, 22for all the men who are seeing My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not listened to My voice— 23they do not see the land which I have sworn to their fathers, indeed, none of those despising Me see it; 24but My servant Caleb, because there has been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me—I have brought him into the land to where he has entered, and his seed possesses it. 25And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley; tomorrow turn and journey for yourselves into the wilderness—the way of the Red Sea." 26And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27"Until when [do I bear] with this evil congregation—they who are murmuring against Me? The murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against Me, I have heard; 28say to them: As I live—a declaration of YHWH—if, as you have spoken in My ears, do I not do so to you? 29Your carcasses fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:10 - let me alone Psalms 99:8 - thou wast Hebrews 3:11 - I sware

Cross-References

Genesis 9:26
And he says: "Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, || And Canaan is servant to him.
Genesis 14:3
All these have been joined together to the Valley of Siddim, which [is] the Salt Sea;
Genesis 14:4
[for] twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings who [are] with him, and they strike the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:6
and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El-Paran, which [is] by the wilderness;
Genesis 14:9
with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with the five.
Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodom goes out to meet him (after his turning back from the striking of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings who [are] with him), to the Valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's valley.
Genesis 14:19
and he blesses him and says, "Blessed [is] Abram to God Most High, possessing the heavens and earth;
Genesis 24:27
and says, "Blessed [is] YHWH, God of my lord Abraham, who has not left off His kindness and His truth with my lord—I [being] in the way, YHWH has led me to the house of my lord's brothers."
Genesis 28:22
then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that You give to me—tithing I tithe to You."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said, I have pardoned, according to thy word. So as not to kill them utterly as one man: which is an instance of his being plenteous in mercy, and ready to forgive; and of the virtue and efficacy of the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man, and of the great regard the Lord has to the prayers of a good man for others. The Jerusalem Targum is,

"and the Word of the Lord said, lo, I have remitted and forgiven according to thy word;''

which must be understood of Christ, the essential Word, and shows, according to the sense of the Targumist, that he has a power to forgive sin, and must be a divine Person, for none can forgive sin but God; see Mark 2:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 14:20. I have pardoned — That is, They shall not be cut off as they deserve, because thou hast interceded for their lives.


 
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