Numbers - 14:28



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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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 14:28.

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Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.
Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
say unto them, I live, an affirmation of Jehovah, if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears, so I do not to you;
Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:
Therefore, say to them: As I live, says the Lord, as you spoke in my hearing, so will I do to you.
Dic ergo eis, Vivo ego, dicit Jehova, nisi quemadmodum loquuti estis in auribus meis sic fecero vobis.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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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