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In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness. <a href="/esv/numbers/14.htm">English Standard Version</a> And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. <a href="/bsb/numbers/14.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/kjv/numbers/14.htm">King James Bible</a> And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. <a href="/nkjv/numbers/14.htm">New King James Version</a> And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. <a href="/nasb_/numbers/14.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness. <a href="/nasb/numbers/14.htm">NASB 1995</a> Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness. <a href="/nasb77/numbers/14.htm">NASB 1977 </a> ‘And your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they shall suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness. <a href="/lsb/numbers/14.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> And your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses come to an end in the wilderness. <a href="/amp/numbers/14.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness. <a href="/csb/numbers/14.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness. <a href="/hcsb/numbers/14.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for 40 years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness. <a href="/asv/numbers/14.htm">American Standard Version</a> And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. <a href="/cev/numbers/14.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Your children will wander around in this desert 40 years, suffering because of your sins, until all of you are dead. <a href="/erv/numbers/14.htm">English Revised Version</a> And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness. <a href="/gwt/numbers/14.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Your children will be shepherds in the desert for 40 years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert. <a href="/gnt/numbers/14.htm">Good News Translation</a> Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies. <a href="/isv/numbers/14.htm">International Standard Version</a> and your children will wander throughout the wilderness for 40 years. They'll bear the consequences of your idolatries until your bodies are entirely consumed in the wilderness. <a href="/msb/numbers/14.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/net/numbers/14.htm">NET Bible</a> and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness. <a href="/nheb/numbers/14.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. <a href="/wbt/numbers/14.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness. <a href="/web/numbers/14.htm">World English Bible</a> Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/numbers/14.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> and your sons are shepherding in the wilderness [for] forty years, and have borne your whoredoms until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness; <a href="/ylt/numbers/14.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness; <a href="/slt/numbers/14.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And your sons shall be fed in the desert forty years, and bear your fornications till your carcasses be finished in the desert.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/numbers/14.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed ill the desert, <a href="/cpdv/numbers/14.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Your sons shall wander in the desert for forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers are consumed in the desert. <a href="/nabre/numbers/14.htm">New American Bible</a> while your children will wander for forty years, suffering for your infidelity, till the last of you lies dead in the wilderness. <a href="/nrsvce/numbers/14.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/numbers/14.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And your sons shall be shepherds forty years in this wilderness, and shall suffer for your whoredom until your corpses are consumed in this wilderness. <a href="/hpbt/numbers/14.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And your sons shall be Shepherds in this wilderness forty years and they shall bear your whoredom until your corpses are gone in this wilderness.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/numbers/14.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. <a href="/sep/numbers/14.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness. <a href="/parallel/numbers/14-33.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=4547" 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> …32As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness. 33<a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ū·ḇə·nê·ḵem (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">Your children</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: yih·yū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">will be</a> <a href="/hebrew/7462.htm" title="7462: rō·‘îm (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- A primitive root; to tend a flock; i.e. Pasture it; intransitively, to graze; generally to rule; by extension, to associate with.">shepherds</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: bam·miḏ·bār (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">in the wilderness</a> <a href="/hebrew/705.htm" title="705: ’ar·bā·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Forty. Multiple of arba'; forty.">for 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/5375.htm" title="5375: wə·nā·śə·’ū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3cp) -- Or nacah ('abad); a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. And rel.">and they will suffer</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/2184.htm" title="2184: zə·nū·ṯê·ḵem (N-fpc:: 2mp) -- Fornication. From zanah; adultery, i.e. infidelity, idolatry.">for your unfaithfulness</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">until the last</a> <a href="/hebrew/6297.htm" title="6297: piḡ·rê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Corpse, carcass. From pagar; a carcase, whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image.">of your bodies</a> <a href="/hebrew/8552.htm" title="8552: tōm (V-Qal-Inf) -- A primitive root; to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive.">lies</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: bam·miḏ·bār (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">in the wilderness.</a> 34In 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.…<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="/deuteronomy/1-34.htm">Deuteronomy 1:34-40</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="/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/3-17.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="/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. <a href="/ezekiel/20-15.htm">Ezekiel 20:15-16</a> Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands— / because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-5.htm">1 Corinthians 10:5-11</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. / Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” ... <a href="/deuteronomy/2-14.htm">Deuteronomy 2:14-15</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. / Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished. <a href="/nehemiah/9-21.htm">Nehemiah 9:21</a> For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. <a href="/acts/7-36.htm">Acts 7:36-42</a> He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness. / This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ / He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us. ... <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="/deuteronomy/8-2.htm">Deuteronomy 8:2-4</a> Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. / He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. / Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. <a href="/psalms/78-32.htm">Psalm 78:32-33</a> In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe. / So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-1.htm">1 Corinthians 10:1-4</a> I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. / They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. / They all ate the same spiritual food ... <a href="/ezekiel/20-23.htm">Ezekiel 20:23-24</a> However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. / For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers. <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.’ ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your prostitutions, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.shall wander in the wilderness.<a href="/numbers/32-13.htm">Numbers 32:13</a> And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.<a href="/joshua/14-10.htm">Joshua 14:10</a> And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.<a href="/psalms/107-4.htm">Psalm 107:4,40</a> They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in… forty years<a href="/numbers/33-38.htm">Numbers 33:38</a> 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.<a href="/deuteronomy/1-3.htm">Deuteronomy 1:3</a> And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;<a href="/deuteronomy/2-14.htm">Deuteronomy 2:14</a> And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.bear<a href="/numbers/5-31.htm">Numbers 5:31</a> Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.<a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1,2</a> They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD… <a href="/ezekiel/23-35.htm">Ezekiel 23:35,45-49</a> Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/numbers/14-27.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/numbers/14-32.htm">Bodies</a> <a href="/numbers/14-32.htm">Carcasses</a> <a href="/numbers/14-31.htm">Children</a> <a href="/numbers/12-12.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/numbers/14-32.htm">Corpses</a> <a href="/numbers/14-29.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/exodus/23-24.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/numbers/14-32.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/numbers/14-27.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-43.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/exodus/2-19.htm">Shepherds</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-16.htm">Suffer</a> <a href="/numbers/5-24.htm">Suffering</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-9.htm">Undergoing</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-40.htm">Unfaithfulness</a> <a href="/genesis/31-40.htm">Wander</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-13.htm">Wanderers</a> <a href="/numbers/14-32.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/numbers/12-12.htm">Wasted</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-22.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/revelation/9-21.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/numbers/14-32.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/numbers/14-34.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/numbers/33-4.htm">Bodies</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/14-8.htm">Carcasses</a> <a href="/numbers/14-39.htm">Children</a> <a href="/numbers/14-35.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-35.htm">Corpses</a> <a href="/numbers/16-48.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/numbers/16-28.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/numbers/14-35.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/numbers/14-35.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-22.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/numbers/14-34.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/1_samuel/17-40.htm">Shepherds</a> <a href="/numbers/14-34.htm">Suffer</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/28-55.htm">Suffering</a> <a href="/daniel/11-33.htm">Undergoing</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/9-1.htm">Unfaithfulness</a> <a href="/numbers/32-13.htm">Wander</a> <a href="/numbers/32-13.htm">Wanderers</a> <a href="/numbers/14-35.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/numbers/24-22.htm">Wasted</a> <a href="/numbers/25-18.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-22.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/numbers/14-35.htm">Wilderness</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>Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness This phrase indicates a nomadic lifestyle, reminiscent of the patriarchs like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were also shepherds. The wilderness, or desert, is a place of testing and reliance on God, as seen in the Israelites' journey. Shepherding symbolizes guidance and care, but here it also implies a lack of settlement and stability. This period serves as a formative time for the new generation, preparing them to enter the Promised Land.for forty years The number forty is significant in the Bible, often associated with periods of testing, trial, and judgment. Examples include the forty days and nights of rain during the flood (<a href="/genesis/7-12.htm">Genesis 7:12</a>), Moses' forty days on Mount Sinai (<a href="/exodus/24-18.htm">Exodus 24:18</a>), and Jesus' forty days of fasting in the wilderness (<a href="/matthew/4-2.htm">Matthew 4:2</a>). This period represents a complete generation, emphasizing the consequences of the Israelites' lack of faith.and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness The suffering of the children is a direct result of the parents' disobedience and lack of trust in God's promises. This reflects the biblical principle that the consequences of sin can affect subsequent generations (<a href="/exodus/20-5.htm">Exodus 20:5</a>). The unfaithfulness refers to the Israelites' refusal to enter the Promised Land due to fear, despite God's assurances (Numbers 13-14).until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness This phrase underscores the finality of the judgment on the unfaithful generation. The wilderness becomes their grave, a stark reminder of the cost of rebellion against God. It also serves as a purging process, ensuring that only those who trust in God will enter the Promised Land. This foreshadows the ultimate rest and inheritance believers find in Christ, who leads His people into the eternal Promised Land (<a href="/hebrews/4-8.htm">Hebrews 4:8-10</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 slavery in Egypt and are now wandering in the wilderness due to their disobedience and lack of faith. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness.htm">The Wilderness</a> A desolate and challenging environment where the Israelites wandered for forty years as a consequence of their rebellion against God. 3. <a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a> The leader of the Israelites, who interceded on their behalf but also witnessed their repeated disobedience. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_promised_land.htm">The Promised Land</a> The land of Canaan, which God promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Israelites' entry was delayed due to their lack of faith. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_spies'_report.htm">The Spies' Report</a> The event where twelve spies were sent to scout the Promised Land, and ten of them returned with a negative report, leading to the Israelites' rebellion.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_unfaithfulness.htm">Consequences of Unfaithfulness</a> The Israelites' forty years in the wilderness serve as a stark reminder of the consequences of disobedience and lack of faith in God's promises. <a href="/topical/g/generational_impact.htm">Generational Impact</a> The unfaithfulness of one generation can have lasting effects on the next, as seen in the children of Israel who suffered due to their parents' rebellion. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_and_justice.htm">God's Faithfulness and Justice</a> Despite the Israelites' unfaithfulness, God remained faithful to His promises, though His justice required consequences for their actions. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_faith.htm">The Importance of Faith</a> Believers are called to trust in God's promises, even when circumstances seem daunting, as faith is crucial to entering into God's rest. <a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_renewal.htm">Repentance and Renewal</a> The wilderness experience can be seen as a time for repentance and renewal, preparing the next generation to enter the Promised Land.<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/can_history_verify_god_gave_israel_land.htm">(Psalm 44:1–3) How can we verify historically or archaeologically that God “drove out the nations” and gave Israel the land? </a> <a href="/q/how_does_lev_16_8-10_justify_scapegoating.htm">How can Leviticus 16:8–10 justify transferring a community’s sins onto a literal goat to be set free? </a> <a href="/q/how_is_manna_explained_scientifically.htm">Deuteronomy 8:3 – How can the miraculous feeding of manna be reconciled with scientific explanations of food sources in a desert? </a> <a href="/q/is_there_a_38_vs._40-year_timeline_issue.htm">Deuteronomy 2:14 notes a 38-year delay, yet the Bible elsewhere often references 40 years; is there a timeline inconsistency? </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>(33) And your children shall wander.--Better, shall be shepherds, or, shall feed their flocks.Forty years.--The forty years were reckoned from the exodus, not from the return of the spies to Kadesh. (See <a href="/numbers/14-34.htm" title="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.">Numbers 14:34</a> and Note.)And bear your whoredoms.--The children were doomed to bear the penalty of their fathers' apostasy. (Comp. <a href="/exodus/34-16.htm" title="And you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make your sons go a whoring after their gods.">Exodus 34:16</a>.)<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/numbers/14.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 33. - Your children shall wander. Literally, "shall pasture." רֹעִים. Septuagint, ἔσονται νεμόμενοι. It was not altogether a threat, for it implied that the Lord would be their Shepherd and would provide for their wants in their wanderings. Forty years. This period was made up by counting in the year and a half since the exodus. It was one of those many cases in which the word of God was fulfilled in the meaning and substance of it, but not in the letter. The delay which had already occurred was itself practically due to the same spirit of mutiny which had grown to a head at Kadesh; it was therefore strictly equitable to count it as part of the punishment inflicted (see on Deuteronomy 2:14). And bear your whoredoms. "Whoredom" had been already used (<a href="/exodus/34-16.htm">Exodus 34:16</a>) as a synonym for idolatry in its aspect of spiritual unfaithfulness, and there is no reason to depart from that well-marked meaning here. That the Jews were guilty of idolatry in the wilderness is distinctly asserted (cf. <a href="/acts/7-42.htm">Acts 7:42, 43</a>); and these idolatrous practices, carried on no doubt in secret, must have been a sore trial to the generation which grew up amidst them (cf. <a href="/joshua/24-14.htm">Joshua 24:14, 23</a>). <a href="/commentaries/numbers/14-33.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Your children וּ֠בְנֵיכֶם (ū·ḇə·nê·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son will be יִהְי֨וּ (yih·yū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be shepherds רֹעִ֤ים (rō·‘îm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7462.htm">Strong's 7462: </a> To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with in the wilderness בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ (bam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> A pasture, a desert, speech for forty אַרְבָּעִ֣ים (’ar·bā·‘îm) Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_705.htm">Strong's 705: </a> Forty years, שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year and they will suffer וְנָשְׂא֖וּ (wə·nā·śə·’ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5375.htm">Strong's 5375: </a> To lift, carry, take [for] your unfaithfulness זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם (zə·nū·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2184.htm">Strong's 2184: </a> Adultery, infidelity, idolatry until עַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while the last תֹּ֥ם (tōm) Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8552.htm">Strong's 8552: </a> To be complete or finished of your bodies פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖ם (piḡ·rê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6297.htm">Strong's 6297: </a> A carcase, an idolatrous image lie scattered in the wilderness. בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ (bam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> A pasture, a desert, speech <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">OT Law: Numbers 14:33 Your children shall be wanderers (Nu Num.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/numbers/14-32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 14:32"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 14:32" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/numbers/14-34.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 14:34"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 14:34" /></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>