Numbers 14:33

Verse

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

American Standard Version (1901)

And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

Bible in Basic English

And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

Free Bible Version

Your children will wander in the desert for forty years, suffering because of your lack of trust until all your bodies lie buried in the desert.

King James (Authorized) Version

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

One Unity Resource Bible

Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

Translation for Translators

And like shepherds wander around in the desert as they take care of their sheep, your children will wander around in this desert for 40 years. Because you adults were not loyal/faithful to me, your children will suffer until you all die in the desert.

Unlocked Literal Bible

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years. They must bear the consequences of your acts of rebellion until the end of your corpses in the wilderness.

Noah Webster Bible

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness.

World English Bible

Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation

and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;

Context

God’s Forgiveness and Judgment

³²As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.³³Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.³⁴In 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.

Summary

Numbers 14:33 reflects God's judgment upon the Israelites for their lack of faith and disobedience. The forty years of wandering in the wilderness symbolize a period of testing and purification for the nation. This verse serves as a reminder of the consequences of unbelief and rebellion against God's promises. It underscores the importance of faith, obedience, and trust in God's guidance to avoid prolonged seasons of hardship and wandering in our spiritual journey.

Commentary

John Gill

John Gill Bible Commentary

After the number of days in which ye searched the land, even forty days,.... For so long they were searching it, Num 13:25, each day for a year; reckoning each day for a year, forty days for forty years, as in Eze 4:6, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years: which number is given, being a round one, otherwise it was but thirty eight years and a half ere they were all cut off, and their children entered the land: and ye shall know my breach of promise; God never makes any breach of promise; his covenant he will not break, nor alter what is gone out of his lips; men break their promises, and transgress the covenant they have made with him, but he never breaks his, Psa 89:34; this should rather be rendered only, "ye shall know my breach"; experience a breach made upon them by him, upon their persons and families by consuming them in the wilderness: the Targum of Jonathan is,"and ye shall know what ye have murmured against me;''this same word is used in the plural in Job 33:10, and is by the Targum rendered "murmurings" or "complaints"; and so the sense is, ye shall know by sad experience the evil of complaining and murmuring against me. The Vulgate Latin version is,"ye shall know my vengeance;''and so the Septuagint,"ye shall know the fury of my anger''which give the sense, though not a literal version of the words.

Numbers 14:33

God’s Forgiveness and Judgment

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Berean Standard Bible

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

American Standard Version (1901)

And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

Bible in Basic English

And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

Free Bible Version

Your children will wander in the desert for forty years, suffering because of your lack of trust until all your bodies lie buried in the desert.

King James (Authorized) Version

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

One Unity Resource Bible

Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

Translation for Translators

Unlocked Literal Bible

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years. They must bear the consequences of your acts of rebellion until the end of your corpses in the wilderness.

Noah Webster Bible

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness.

World English Bible

Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation

and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;