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Numbers 14:28-30
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28 Say to them, ‘As I live,[a] says[b] the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.[c] 29 Your dead bodies[d] will fall in this wilderness—all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. 30 You will by no means enter into the land where[e] I swore[f] to settle[g] you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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  1. Numbers 14:28 sn Here again is the oath that God swore in his wrath, an oath he swore by himself, that they would not enter the land. “As the Lord lives,” or “by the life of the Lord,” are ways to render it.
  2. Numbers 14:28 tn The word נְאֻם (neʾum) is an “oracle.” It is followed by the subjective genitive: “the oracle of the Lord” is equal to saying “the Lord says.”
  3. Numbers 14:28 tn Heb “in my ears.”sn They had expressed the longing to have died in the wilderness, and not in war. God will now give them that. They would not say to God “your will be done,” so he says to them, “your will be done” (to borrow from C. S. Lewis).
  4. Numbers 14:29 tn Or “your corpses” (also in vv. 32, 33).
  5. Numbers 14:30 tn The relative pronoun “which” is joined with the resumptive pronoun “in it” to form a smoother reading “where.”
  6. Numbers 14:30 tn The Hebrew text uses the anthropomorphic expression “I raised my hand” in taking an oath.
  7. Numbers 14:30 tn Heb “to cause you to dwell; to cause you to settle.”
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