Numbers 14:12

Young's Literal Translation

I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

King James Version
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

Lexham English Bible
I will strike them with disease, and I will dispossess them; I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than them."

New Century Version
I will give them a terrible sickness and get rid of them. But I will make you into a great nation that will be stronger than they are."

New English Translation
I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!"

Amplified Bible
"I will strike them with the pestilence (plague) and dispossess them, and will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

New American Standard Bible
"I will strike them with plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and mightier then they.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will strike them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

Contemporary English Version
So they will no longer be my people. I will destroy them, but I will make you the ancestor of a nation even stronger than theirs."

Complete Jewish Bible
I am going to strike them with sickness, destroy them and make from you a nation greater and stronger than they are!"

Darby Translation
I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

Easy-to-Read Version
I will kill them all with a terrible sickness. I will destroy them, and I will use you to make another nation. Your nation will be greater and stronger than these people."

English Standard Version
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

George Lamsa Translation
I will smite them with pestilence, and destroy them, and I will make of you a nation which is greater and mightier than they.

Good News Translation
I will send an epidemic and destroy them, but I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are!"

Christian Standard Bible®
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”

Literal Translation
I shall strike it with pestilence and dispossess it. And I will make you a nation greater and mightier than it.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil smyte them with pestilence & destroye the, & wil make of the a greater & mightier people then this is.

American Standard Version
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

Bible in Basic English
I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I will smyte them with the pestilence and destroy them, and wyll make of thee a greater nation and mightier then they.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.'

King James Version (1611)
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherite them, and will make of thee a greater nation, and mightier then they.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father’s house a great nation, and much greater than this.

English Revised Version
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

Berean Standard Bible
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them-and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Y schal smyte hem with pestilence, and Y schal waste hem; forsothe Y schal make thee prince on a greet folk, and strongere than is this.

Update Bible Version
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

World English Bible
I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

New King James Version
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

New Living Translation
I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are!"

New Life Bible
I will punish them with disease, and will not give them the land. And I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they."

New Revised Standard
I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let me smite them with pestilence, and disinherit them, - And make thee into a nation greater and more mighty than they!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

Revised Standard Version
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

Contextual Overview

¹¹ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst? <sup>12</sup> I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.' <sup>13</sup> And Moses saith unto Jehovah, `Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst, ¹⁴ and they have said [it] unto the inhabitant of this land, they have heard that Thou, Jehovah, [art] in the midst of this people, that eye to eye Thou art seen -- O Jehovah, and Thy cloud is standing over them, -- and in a pillar of cloud Thou art going before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ `And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying, <sup>16</sup> From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them -- He doth slaughter them in the wilderness. <sup>17</sup> `And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying: ¹⁸ Jehovah [is] slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third [generation], and on a fourth; -- ¹⁹ forgive, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Thy kindness, and as Thou hast borne with this people from Egypt, even until now.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

smite: Numbers 16:46-49, Numbers 25:9, Exodus 5:3, 2 Samuel 24:1, 2 Samuel 24:12-15

will make: Exodus 32:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:2 - General Exodus 33:3 - for I Leviticus 26:25 - I will send Numbers 14:37 - died Numbers 16:21 - that I may Deuteronomy 9:14 - and I will Deuteronomy 28:21 - General 2 Chronicles 7:13 - I send Ezekiel 14:19 - if I Ezekiel 20:13 - I said Habakkuk 3:5 - went 1 Corinthians 10:5 - General Hebrews 4:6 - some

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
And these [are] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;

Genesis 12:5
And Abram taketh Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Charan; and they go out to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come in to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 14:9
with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with the five.

Genesis 14:11
And they take the whole substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole of their food, and go away;

Genesis 14:12
and they take Lot, Abram's brother's son (seeing he is dwelling in Sodom), and his substance, and go away.

Genesis 14:13
And one who is escaping cometh and declareth to Abram the Hebrew, and he is dwelling among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, and they [are] Abram's allies.

Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodom goeth out to meet him (after his turning back from the smiting of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings who [are] with him), unto the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's valley.

Genesis 14:19
and he blesseth him, and saith, `Blessed [is] Abram to God Most High, possessing heaven and earth;

Numbers 16:26
and he speaketh unto the company, saying, `Turn aside, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and come not against anything that they have, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.'

Job 9:23
If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,.... Deprive them of inhabiting the land; so as many as died of the pestilence were even all the spies who brought an evil report of the good land, Numbers 14:37; with respect to the body of the people, this is to be considered not as a peremptory decree or a determined point; but is delivered partly by way of proposal to Moses, to draw out from him what he would say to it; and partly by way of threatening to the people, to bring them to a sense of their sin and repentance for it:

and will make of thee a greater nation, and mightier than they: this anticipates an objection that might be made, should the people of Israel be cut off by the plague, and so disinherited of the land of Canaan, what will become of the oath of God made to their fathers? to which the answer is, it would be fulfilled in making the posterity of Moses as great or a greater and more powerful nation than Israel now was, and by introducing them into the land of Canaan, who would be of the seed of the fathers of Israel, as Jarchi observes, as those people were; and this was said to prove Moses, and try his affection to the people of Israel; and give him an opportunity of showing his public and disinterested spirit.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And disinherit them - By the proposed extinction of Israel the blessings of the covenant would revert to their original donor.