Numbers - 14:32



32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 14:32.

Differing Translations

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But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.
But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
Cadavera autem vestra cadent in deserto hoc.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

But as for you, your carcasses,.... Which way of speaking seems to be used to distinguish them from their children:
they shall fall in this wilderness: which is repeated for the confirmation and certainty it, and an emphasis is laid on the words, this which are pronounced with an accent, to put them in mind of their wish, Numbers 14:2.

Your carcases - See with what contempt they are spoken of, now they had by their sin made themselves vile! The mighty men of valour were but carcases, now the Spirit of the Lord was departed from them! It was very probably upon this occasion, that Moses wrote the ninetieth psalm.

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