Numbers 14:28

28 So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say:

Numbers 14:28 in Other Translations

28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

28 Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

28 Now tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.

28 Tell them, As I live - God's decree - here's what I'm going to do:

28 Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

28 So tell them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, I solemnly swear I will do everything to you that you said I would do.

28 Tell them: As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

28 So tell them, 'Here is what I, the Lord, am announcing. You can be sure that I live. And you can be just as sure that I will do to you the very things that I heard you say.

Numbers 14:28 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:28

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.

Numbers 14:28 In-Context

26 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:

27 “How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.

28 So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say:

29 In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.

30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Cross References

• 1. S ver 21
• 2. Numbers 33:56