Numbers 14:27-29
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
27 How long will this wicked community grumble against me?(A) I have heard the grumblings of the Israelites against me. 28 Tell them:[a] “By my life”—oracle of the Lord—“I will do to you just what I have heard you say. 29 Here in the wilderness(B) your dead bodies shall fall. Of all your men of twenty years or more, enrolled in your registration, who grumbled against me,
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- 14:28–29 God punished the grumblers by giving them their wish; cf. v. 2. Their lack of trust in God is cited in 1 Cor 10:10 and Hb 3:12–18 as a warning for Christians.
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