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Numbers 14:31
Numbers 14:31 is verse 31 of Numbers chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
King James Version
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
World English Bible
But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
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Numbers 14:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible
29 Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
30 Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
31 But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
32 As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 26:6the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and the Carmite clan from Carmi.
Numbers 26:64Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Deuteronomy 1:39And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
Genesis 25:34Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Psalms 106:24They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
Proverbs 1:30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
Matthew 22:5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
Acts 13:41‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”
Hebrews 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
Hebrews 12:17For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.