Numbers 14:34

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

After the number {H4557} of the days {H3117} in which ye searched {H8446} the land {H776}, even forty {H705} days {H3117}, each day {H3117} for a year {H8141}{H3117}{H8141}, shall ye bear {H5375} your iniquities {H5771}, even forty {H705} years {H8141}, and ye shall know {H3045} my breach of promise {H8569}.

It will be a year for every day you spent reconnoitering the land that you will bear the consequences of your offenses - forty days, forty years. Then you will know what it means to oppose me!

In 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.

After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

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Cross-References

  • Ezekiel 4:6 (11 votes)

    And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

  • Numbers 13:25 (8 votes)

    And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

  • Jeremiah 18:9 (5 votes)

    And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];

  • Jeremiah 18:10 (5 votes)

    If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

  • Daniel 9:24 (4 votes)

    Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

  • Psalms 95:10 (3 votes)

    Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

  • 2 Chronicles 36:21 (3 votes)

    To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.