Numbers - 14:8



8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 14:8.

Differing Translations

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If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.
If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;
If the LORD delighteth in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;
And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
If the Lord will be gracious to us, he will lead us into it, and he will give us the land flowing with milk and honey.
Si complacitum fuerit Jehovae in nobis, introducet nos in terram istam, tradetque eam nobis, terram quae affluit lacte et melle.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

If the Lord delight in us,.... Continue to delight in them as he had, and as appears by what he had done for, them in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; see Deuteronomy 10:15,
then he will bring us into this land, and give it us, as he has promised:
a land which floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord himself hath described it, and as the unbelieving spies themselves had owned it; Numbers 13:27.

a land flowing with milk and honey--a general expression, descriptive of a rich and fertile country. The two articles specified were among the principal products of the Holy Land.

Delight in us - If by our rebellion and ingratitude we do not provoke God to leave and forsake us.

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