28 Tell them, 'As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
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Say unto them, as truly as I live, saith the Lord,.... The form of an oath, as in Numbers 14:21,
as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you; what they had wished for, and expressed in the hearing of the Lord, he threatens them should be their case.
As ye have spoken - When you wickedly wished you might die in the wilderness.
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