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Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.’ <a href="/esv/numbers/14.htm">English Standard Version</a> According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’ <a href="/bsb/numbers/14.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation. <a href="/kjv/numbers/14.htm">King James Bible</a> After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. <a href="/nkjv/numbers/14.htm">New King James Version</a> According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection. <a href="/nasb_/numbers/14.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> In accordance with the number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition. <a href="/nasb/numbers/14.htm">NASB 1995</a> According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition. <a href="/nasb77/numbers/14.htm">NASB 1977 </a> ‘According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you shall know My opposition. <a href="/lsb/numbers/14.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition. <a href="/amp/numbers/14.htm">Amplified Bible</a> According to the number of days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], forty days, for each day, you shall bear and suffer a year for your sins and guilt, for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement because of your sin]. <a href="/csb/numbers/14.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> You will bear the consequences of your iniquities forty years based on the number of the forty days that you scouted the land, a year for each day. You will know my displeasure. <a href="/hcsb/numbers/14.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> You will bear the consequences of your sins 40 years based on the number of the 40 days that you scouted the land, a year for each day. You will know My displeasure. <a href="/asv/numbers/14.htm">American Standard Version</a> After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation. <a href="/cev/numbers/14.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> I will punish you severely every day for the next 40 years--one year for each day that the land was explored. <a href="/erv/numbers/14.htm">English Revised Version</a> After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation. <a href="/gwt/numbers/14.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> For 40 days you explored the land. So for 40 years-one year for each day-you will suffer for your sins and know what it means for me to be against you.' <a href="/gnt/numbers/14.htm">Good News Translation</a> You will suffer the consequences of your sin for forty years, one year for each of the forty days you spent exploring the land. You will know what it means to have me against you! <a href="/isv/numbers/14.htm">International Standard Version</a> Just as you explored the land for 40 days, you'll bear the consequences of your iniquities for 40 years—one year for each day—as you experience my hostility. <a href="/msb/numbers/14.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years?a year for each day?and you will experience My alienation. <a href="/net/numbers/14.htm">NET Bible</a> According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days--one day for a year--you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me. <a href="/nheb/numbers/14.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.' <a href="/wbt/numbers/14.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days (each day for a year) shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. <a href="/web/numbers/14.htm">World English Bible</a> After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’ <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/numbers/14.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> by the number of the days [in] which you spied out the land, forty days—a day for a year, a day for a year—you bear your iniquities [for] forty years, and you have known My opposition; <a href="/ylt/numbers/14.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> by the number of the days in which ye spied the land, forty days, -- a day for a year, a day for a year -- ye do bear your iniquities, forty years, and ye have known my breaking off; <a href="/slt/numbers/14.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> According to the number of days which ye searched out the land, forty days, a day a year, a day for a year, shall ye your iniquities; forty years, and ye knew my withdrawal.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/numbers/14.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge: <a href="/cpdv/numbers/14.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> According to the number of the forty days, during which you examined the land, one year shall be charged for each day. And so, for forty years you shall take back your iniquities, and you shall know my retribution. <a href="/nabre/numbers/14.htm">New American Bible</a> Corresponding to the number of days you spent reconnoitering the land—forty days—you shall bear your punishment one year for each day: forty years. Thus you will realize what it means to oppose me. <a href="/nrsvce/numbers/14.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.”<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/numbers/14.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, a year for each day, shall you suffer for your iniquities, forty years; then you shall know that it is because you have murmured before me. <a href="/hpbt/numbers/14.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> By the number of days that you spied out the land forty days, a day to a year, you shall receive your evil forty years, and you shall know that because you complained before me.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/numbers/14.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know My displeasure. <a href="/sep/numbers/14.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger. <a href="/parallel/numbers/14-34.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yauBFvKLNNo?start=4558" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/numbers/14.htm">God's Forgiveness and Judgment</a> …33Your 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. 34<a href="/hebrew/4557.htm" title="4557: bə·mis·par (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Number, tally. From caphar; a number, definite or indefinite; also narration.">In keeping with the</a> <a href="/hebrew/705.htm" title="705: ’ar·bā·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Forty. Multiple of arba'; forty.">forty</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: hay·yā·mîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">days</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8446.htm" title="8446: tar·tem (V-Qal-Perf-2mp) -- To seek out, spy out, explore. A primitive root; to meander about, especially for trade or reconnoitring.">you spied</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">out the land,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5375.htm" title="5375: tiś·’ū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- Or nacah ('abad); a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. And rel.">you shall bear</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5771.htm" title="5771: ‘ă·wō·nō·ṯê·ḵem (N-cpc:: 2mp) -- Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity. Or oavown; from avah; perversity, i.e. evil.">your guilt</a> <a href="/hebrew/705.htm" title="705: ’ar·bā·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Forty. Multiple of arba'; forty.">forty</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">years—</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: laš·šā·nāh (Prep-l, Art:: N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">a year</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: laš·šā·nāh (Prep-l, Art:: N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">for each day</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm (N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm (N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm (N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">—</a> <a href="/hebrew/3045.htm" title="3045: wî·ḏa‘·tem (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2mp) -- A primitive root; to know; used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially.">and you will experience</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8569.htm" title="8569: tə·nū·’ā·ṯî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Opposition. From nuw'; alienation; by implication, enmity.">My alienation.</a> 35I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm">Ezekiel 4:6</a> When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year. <a href="/leviticus/26-18.htm">Leviticus 26:18</a> And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins. <a href="/leviticus/26-24.htm">Leviticus 26:24</a> then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins. <a href="/leviticus/26-28.htm">Leviticus 26:28</a> then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins. <a href="/deuteronomy/1-2.htm">Deuteronomy 1:2</a> It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir. <a href="/deuteronomy/1-34.htm">Deuteronomy 1:34-36</a> When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying, / “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers, / except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.” <a href="/deuteronomy/2-14.htm">Deuteronomy 2:14</a> The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them. <a href="/psalms/95-10.htm">Psalm 95:10-11</a> For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.” / So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.” <a href="/hebrews/3-8.htm">Hebrews 3:8-11</a> do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. / Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ ... <a href="/hebrews/3-17.htm">Hebrews 3:17-19</a> And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? / And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? / So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter. <a href="/hebrews/4-1.htm">Hebrews 4:1-2</a> Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. / For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it. <a href="/hebrews/4-6.htm">Hebrews 4:6-7</a> Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience, / God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” <a href="/1_corinthians/10-5.htm">1 Corinthians 10:5-6</a> Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. / These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-11.htm">1 Corinthians 10:11</a> Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. <a href="/joshua/5-6.htm">Joshua 5:6</a> For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.after<a href="/numbers/13-25.htm">Numbers 13:25</a> And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.<a href="/2_chronicles/36-21.htm">2 Chronicles 36:21</a> To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.the number<a href="/psalms/95-10.htm">Psalm 95:10</a> Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:<a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm">Ezekiel 4:6</a> And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.<a href="/daniel/9-24.htm">Daniel 9:24</a> Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.shall ye bear<a href="/numbers/18-23.htm">Numbers 18:23</a> But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.<a href="/leviticus/20-19.htm">Leviticus 20:19</a> And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.<a href="/psalms/38-4.htm">Psalm 38:4</a> For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.ye shall<a href="/1_kings/8-56.htm">1 Kings 8:56</a> Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.<a href="/psalms/77-8.htm">Psalm 77:8</a> Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?<a href="/psalms/105-42.htm">Psalm 105:42</a> For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.<a href="/deuteronomy/31-16.htm">Deuteronomy 31:16,17</a> And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them… <a href="/1_samuel/2-30.htm">1 Samuel 2:30</a> Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.<a href="/zechariah/11-10.htm">Zechariah 11:10</a> And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-20.htm">Breach</a> <a href="/genesis/4-6.htm">Displeasure</a> <a href="/numbers/14-7.htm">Explored</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-39.htm">Iniquities</a> <a href="/numbers/14-19.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/exodus/3-17.htm">Promise</a> <a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/numbers/14-6.htm">Searched</a> <a href="/numbers/5-7.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/numbers/14-6.htm">Spied</a> <a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Suffer</a> <a href="/exodus/21-20.htm">Undergo</a> <a href="/numbers/13-25.htm">Viewing</a> <a href="/numbers/5-31.htm">Wrongdoing</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/numbers/18-1.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/joshua/22-22.htm">Breach</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-19.htm">Displeasure</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/1-24.htm">Explored</a> <a href="/ezra/9-6.htm">Iniquities</a> <a href="/numbers/15-31.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/numbers/23-19.htm">Promise</a> <a href="/numbers/16-26.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/1-24.htm">Searched</a> <a href="/numbers/15-27.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/1-24.htm">Spied</a> <a href="/numbers/16-29.htm">Suffer</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-2.htm">Undergo</a> <a href="/ezra/8-15.htm">Viewing</a> <a href="/numbers/18-1.htm">Wrongdoing</a><div class="vheading2">Numbers 14</div>1. <a href="/numbers/14-1.htm">The people murmur at the news</a> 6. <a href="/numbers/14-6.htm">Joshua and Caleb labor to still them</a> 11. <a href="/numbers/14-11.htm">God threatens them</a> 13. <a href="/numbers/14-13.htm">Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon</a> 26. <a href="/numbers/14-26.htm">The Murmurers are debarred from entering into the land</a> 36. <a href="/numbers/14-36.htm">The men who raised the evil report die by a plague</a> 40. <a href="/numbers/14-40.htm">The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/numbers/14.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/numbers/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/numbers/14.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land The Israelites had sent twelve spies to explore Canaan for forty days (<a href="/numbers/13-25.htm">Numbers 13:25</a>). This period of exploration was meant to assess the land God promised to give them. The number forty often symbolizes a period of testing or judgment in the Bible, as seen in the forty days of rain during the flood (<a href="/genesis/7-12.htm">Genesis 7:12</a>) and Jesus' forty days of fasting in the wilderness (<a href="/matthew/4-2.htm">Matthew 4:2</a>). The spies' mission was a test of faith, which they failed by doubting God's promise.you shall bear your guilt forty years The punishment corresponds directly to the time spent in disbelief. Each day of the spies' exploration equates to a year of wandering in the wilderness. This reflects the biblical principle of reaping what one sows (<a href="/galatians/6-7.htm">Galatians 6:7</a>). The forty years also serve as a period of purification and preparation for the next generation to enter the Promised Land, as the current generation's lack of faith disqualified them.a year for each day This phrase emphasizes the direct correlation between the spies' actions and the consequences faced by the Israelites. It underscores the seriousness of their lack of faith and the importance of obedience to God. The concept of time as a measure of judgment is seen elsewhere, such as in <a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm">Ezekiel 4:6</a>, where the prophet bears the iniquity of Israel for forty days, each day representing a year.and you will experience My alienation God's alienation signifies a withdrawal of His favor and presence due to the people's rebellion. This separation is a form of divine judgment, highlighting the gravity of their sin. The Israelites' experience of alienation foreshadows the ultimate separation from God due to sin, which is reconciled through Jesus Christ. Christ's atoning sacrifice restores the relationship between God and humanity, offering redemption and the promise of eternal presence with God (<a href="/romans/5-10.htm">Romans 5:10</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a> The chosen people of God who were delivered from Egypt and were on their journey to the Promised Land. They are the primary recipients of God's message in this passage. 2. <a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a> The leader of the Israelites, who interceded on their behalf after they rebelled against God's command to enter the Promised Land. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_promised_land.htm">The Promised Land (Canaan)</a> The land promised by God to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Israelites were supposed to enter and take possession of it. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_twelve_spies.htm">The Twelve Spies</a> Representatives from each of the twelve tribes of Israel sent by Moses to scout the land of Canaan. Their report led to the rebellion of the Israelites. 5. <a href="/topical/g/god's_judgment.htm">God's Judgment</a> The event where God decreed that the Israelites would wander in the wilderness for forty years as a consequence of their lack of faith and rebellion.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_disobedience.htm">The Consequences of Disobedience</a> Disobedience to God's commands can lead to severe consequences, as seen in the Israelites' forty years of wandering. Believers are called to trust and obey God, even when circumstances seem daunting. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_faith.htm">The Importance of Faith</a> The Israelites' lack of faith in God's promise led to their downfall. Christians are encouraged to have faith in God's promises, trusting that He will fulfill them in His timing. <a href="/topical/g/god's_patience_and_justice.htm">God's Patience and Justice</a> While God is patient, He is also just. The forty-year punishment reflects both His patience in allowing a new generation to rise and His justice in dealing with rebellion. <a href="/topical/l/learning_from_past_mistakes.htm">Learning from Past Mistakes</a> The account serves as a reminder to learn from the past mistakes of others. Believers should heed the warnings in Scripture to avoid similar pitfalls. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_leadership.htm">The Role of Leadership</a> Moses' role as an intercessor highlights the importance of godly leadership. Leaders are called to guide their people in faithfulness and obedience to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_numbers_14.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Numbers 14</a> <a href="/q/why_40_years_to_reach_promised_land.htm">Why did Israelites' journey to the Promised Land take 40 years?</a> <a href="/q/why_did_the_1844_millerite_prophecy_fail.htm">Why did the Millerites' prophecy fail in 1844?</a> <a href="/q/bible's_teachings_on_forgiveness.htm">What are the Bible's teachings on forgiveness?</a> <a href="/q/is_there_evidence_for_deut._1_34-39's_judgment.htm">Deuteronomy 1:34–39 implies a direct divine punishment for an entire generation; is there any contextual or historical corroboration for such a widespread judgment?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/numbers/14.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(34) Even forty days, each day for a year.--The numbering which is recorded in chapter 26 took place after the death of Aaron, which happened on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the exodus (<a href="/numbers/33-38.htm" title="And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.">Numbers 33:38</a>). Hence it follows that the year and a half which had elapsed since the exodus must be included in the forty years of shepherd life in the wilderness.My breach of promise.--The noun which is thus rendered occurs only in one other place, viz., <a href="/job/33-10.htm" title="Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,">Job 33:10</a>. The cognate verb, however, occurs several times in this book in the sense of refuse, disallow, or hinder. (See <a href="/numbers/30-5.htm" title="But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears; not any of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.">Numbers 30:5</a>; <a href="/numbers/30-8.htm" title="But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.">Numbers 30:8</a>; <a href="/numbers/30-11.htm" title="And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.">Numbers 30:11</a>; <a href="/numbers/32-7.htm" title="And why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?">Numbers 32:7</a>.) The meaning here appears to be rejection or alienation. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/numbers/14.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 34. - After the number of the days... each day for a year. It is said, and truly, that the connection between the two periods was arbitrary, and that the apparent correspondence lay only upon the surface. Exactly for this reason it was the better fitted to fix itself in the mind of a nation incapable of following a deeper and more spiritual analogy of guilt and punishment. It served the purpose which God had in view, viz., to make them feel that the quantity as well as the quality of their punishment was entirely due to themselves; and it needed no other justification. If God assigns reasons at all, he assigns such as can be understood by those to whom he speaks. Ye shall know my breach of promise. תְּנוּאָתִי. The noun only occurs elsewhere in <a href="/job/33-10.htm">Job 33:10</a>, but the verb is found in <a href="/numbers/32-7.htm">Numbers 32:7</a> in the sense of "discouraging," or "turning away" (Septuagint, ἰνατί διαστρέφετε). Here it must mean "my withdrawal," or "my turning aside, from you." They should know by sad experience that "with the froward" God will "show" himself "froward" (<a href="/psalms/18-26.htm">Psalm 18:26</a>). <a href="/commentaries/numbers/14-34.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>In keeping with the בְּמִסְפַּ֨ר (bə·mis·par) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4557.htm">Strong's 4557: </a> A number, definite, indefinite, narration forty אַרְבָּעִ֣ים (’ar·bā·‘îm) Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_705.htm">Strong's 705: </a> Forty of days הַיָּמִ֜ים (hay·yā·mîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day you spied תַּרְתֶּ֣ם (tar·tem) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8446.htm">Strong's 8446: </a> To meander, about, for, trade, reconnoitring out the land, הָאָרֶץ֮ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land you shall bear תִּשְׂאוּ֙ (tiś·’ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5375.htm">Strong's 5375: </a> To lift, carry, take your guilt עֲוֺנֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם (‘ă·wō·nō·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5771.htm">Strong's 5771: </a> Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity forty אַרְבָּעִ֖ים (’ar·bā·‘îm) Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_705.htm">Strong's 705: </a> Forty years— שָׁנָ֑ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year a year לַשָּׁנָ֗ה (laš·šā·nāh) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year for each day— לַשָּׁנָ֞ה (laš·šā·nāh) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year and you will experience וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם (wî·ḏa‘·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3045.htm">Strong's 3045: </a> To know My alienation. תְּנוּאָתִֽי׃ (tə·nū·’ā·ṯî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8569.htm">Strong's 8569: </a> Alienation, enmity <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/numbers/14-34.htm">OT Law: Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days (Nu Num.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/numbers/14-33.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 14:33"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 14:33" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/numbers/14-35.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 14:35"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 14:35" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>