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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Numbers 14:28

Say unto them: As I live, is the oracle of Yahweh: Surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so, will I do unto you: -

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Holy Spirit;   Infidelity;   Israel;   Judgments;   Murmuring;   Reprobacy;   Sin;   Unpardonable Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Murmuring;   Oaths;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mediator;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Deuteronomy;   Joshua the son of nun;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Deuteronomy, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gibeonites;   Numbers, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Israel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Moses;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Tell them, As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
King James Version
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord , as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Lexham English Bible
Say to them, ‘Surely as I live,' declares Yahweh, ‘just as you spoke in my hearing, so I will do to you;
New Century Version
So tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says. I heard what you said, and as surely as I live, I will do those very things to you:
New English Translation
Say to them, ‘As I live, says the Lord , I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.
Amplified Bible
"Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just what you have spoken in My hearing I will most certainly do to you;
New American Standard Bible
"Say to them, 'As I live,' declares the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Tell them, As I liue (saith the Lorde) I wil surely do vnto you, euen as ye haue spoken in mine eares.
Legacy Standard Bible
Say to them, ‘As I live,' declares Yahweh, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;
Complete Jewish Bible
Tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, Adonai swears, as surely as you have spoken in my ears, I will do this to you:
Darby Translation
Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
Easy-to-Read Version
So tell them, ‘The Lord says that he will surely do all those things to you that you complained about. This is what will happen to you:
English Standard Version
Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord , what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
George Lamsa Translation
Say to them, As I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my presence, so will I do to you;
Good News Translation
Now give them this answer: ‘I swear that as surely as I live, I will do to you just what you have asked. I, the Lord , have spoken.
Christian Standard Bible®
Tell them: As surely as I live—this is the Lord’s declaration—I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
Literal Translation
Say to them, As I live, says Jehovah, as surely as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I haue herde the murmuringe of the childre of Israel, yt they haue murmured agaynst me. Tell them therfore: As trulye as I lyue (sayeth ye LORDE) I wil do vnto you, euen as ye haue spoken in myne eares:
American Standard Version
Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Bible in Basic English
Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Tell them therefore: As truely as I liue sayeth the Lorde, I wyll do vnto you euen as ye haue spoken in myne eares:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Say unto them: As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in Mine ears, so will I do to you:
King James Version (1611)
Say vnto them, As truly as I liue, saith the Lord, as ye haue spoken in mine eares, so will I doe to you:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.
English Revised Version
Say unto them, As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Berean Standard Bible
So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor seie thou to hem, Y lyue, seith the Lord; as ye spaken while Y herde, so Y schal do to you;
Young's Literal Translation
say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you;
Update Bible Version
Say to them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you:
Webster's Bible Translation
Say to them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
World English Bible
Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
New King James Version
Say to them, "As I live,' says the LORD, "just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:
New Living Translation
Now tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord , I will do to you the very things I heard you say.
New Life Bible
Say to them, ‘As I live, what you have said in My hearing I will do to you,' says the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Say to them, "As I live," says the Lord , "I will do to you the very things I heard you say:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.
Revised Standard Version
Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

Contextual Overview

20 And Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to thy word; 21 Nevertheless as I live, - and that all the earth may be filled with the glory of Yahweh, 22 Verily, none of the men who have been beholding my glory and my signs, which I have done in Egypt and in the desert, - and have put me to the proof these ten times, and have not hearkened unto my voice, 23 shall see the land, which I sware to their fathers, - yea, none of my despisers, shall see it. 24 But my servant Caleb - because there was another spirit with him, and he followed me fully, therefore will I bring him into the land whereinto he entered, and his seed, shall possess it. 25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites, are dwelling in the valley, - to-morrow, turn ye away; and set yourselves forward towards the desert by the way of the Red Sea. 26 Then spake Yahweh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 27 How long, as regardeth this evil assembly, re they to be murmuring against me? The murmuring of the sons of Israel which, they, have been murmuring against me, have I heard, 28 Say unto them: As I live, is the oracle of Yahweh: Surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so, will I do unto you: - 29 In this desert, shall your dead bodies fall And none of you who were numbered in all your counting, from twenty years old and upwards, - who have murmured against me,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

As truly: Numbers 14:21, Numbers 14:23, Numbers 26:64, Numbers 26:65, Numbers 32:11, Deuteronomy 1:35, Psalms 90:8, Psalms 90:9, Hebrews 3:17

as ye have: Numbers 14:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:14 - until all the generation Deuteronomy 32:40 - General 1 Samuel 15:29 - will not lie Psalms 95:11 - I sware Psalms 106:26 - Therefore Jeremiah 22:5 - I Jeremiah 44:26 - I have sworn Jeremiah 44:28 - shall know Ezekiel 5:11 - as I live Ezekiel 12:25 - I will Ezekiel 14:16 - as I live Ezekiel 20:38 - I will purge Ezekiel 33:11 - As I live Matthew 25:10 - and the Romans 14:11 - As 1 Corinthians 10:5 - General Hebrews 2:2 - every

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Say unto them, [as truly as] I live, saith the Lord,.... The form of an oath, as in Numbers 14:21;

as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you; what they had wished for, and expressed in the hearing of the Lord, he threatens them should be their case.


 
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