Números 14:34

34 Segundo o número dos dias em que espiastes a terra, a saber, quarenta dias, levareis sobre vós as vossas iniqüidades por quarenta anos, um ano por um dia, e conhecereis a minha oposição.

Números 14:34 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:34

After the number of days in which ye searched the land,
[even] forty days
For so long they were searching it, ( Numbers 13:25 ) ; each day for a year;
reckoning each day for a year, forty days for forty years, as in ( Ezekiel 4:6 ) ; shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years:
which number is given, being a round one, otherwise it was but thirty eight years and a half ere they were all cut off, and their children entered the land: and ye shall know my breach of promise;
God never makes any breach of promise; his covenant he will not break, nor alter what is gone out of his lips; men break their promises, and transgress the covenant they have made with him, but he never breaks his, ( Psalms 89:34 ) ; this should rather be rendered only, "ye shall know my breach"; experience a breach made upon them by him, upon their persons and families by consuming them in the wilderness: the Targum of Jonathan is,

``and ye shall know what ye have murmured against me;''

this same word is used in the plural in ( Job 33:10 ) , and is by the Targum rendered "murmurings" or "complaints"; and so the sense is, ye shall know by sad experience the evil of complaining and murmuring against me. The Vulgate Latin version is,

``ye shall know my vengeance;''

and so the Septuagint,

``ye shall know the fury of my anger''

which give the sense, though not a literal version of the words.

Números 14:34 In-Context

32 Quanto a vós, porém, os vossos cadáveres cairão neste deserto;

33 e vossos filhos serão pastores no deserto quarenta anos, e levarão sobre si as vossas infidelidades, até que os vossos cadáveres se consumam neste deserto.

34 Segundo o número dos dias em que espiastes a terra, a saber, quarenta dias, levareis sobre vós as vossas iniqüidades por quarenta anos, um ano por um dia, e conhecereis a minha oposição.

35 Eu, o Senhor, tenho falado; certamente assim o farei a toda esta má congregação, aos que se sublevaram contra mim; neste deserto se consumirão, e aqui morrerão.

36 Ora, quanto aos homens que Moisés mandara a espiar a terra e que, voltando, fizeram murmurar toda a congregação contra ele, infamando a terra,