Numbers 14:28
New International Version
So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say:

New Living Translation
Now tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.

English Standard Version
Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

Berean Standard Bible
So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

King James Bible
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

New King James Version
Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:

New American Standard Bible
Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you;

NASB 1995
“Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

NASB 1977
“Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

Legacy Standard Bible
Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares Yahweh, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

Amplified Bible
Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just what you have spoken in My hearing I will most certainly do to you;

Christian Standard Bible
Tell them: As I live—this is the LORD’s declaration—I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the LORD’s declaration, “I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

American Standard Version
Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Say to them: ‘I am living, says LORD JEHOVAH, but as you have said before me, so shall I do to you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.

English Revised Version
Say unto them, As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So tell them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, I solemnly swear I will do everything to you that you said I would do.

Good News Translation
Now give them this answer: 'I swear that as surely as I live, I will do to you just what you have asked. I, the LORD, have spoken.

International Standard Version
So tell them that as long as I live—consider this to be an oracle from the LORD—as certainly as you've spoken right into my ears, that's how I'm going to treat you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Say unto them: As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in Mine ears, so will I do to you:

Literal Standard Version
say to them: As I live—a declaration of YHWH—if, as you have spoken in My ears, do I not do so to you?

Majority Standard Bible
So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

New American Bible
Tell them: “By my life”—oracle of the LORD—“I will do to you just what I have heard you say.

NET Bible
Say to them, 'As I live, says the LORD, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.

New Revised Standard Version
Say to them, “As I live,” says the LORD, “I will do to you the very things I heard you say:

New Heart English Bible
Tell them, 'As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

Webster's Bible Translation
Say to them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

World English Bible
Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

Young's Literal Translation
say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you;

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Context
God's Forgiveness and Judgment
27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me. 28So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. 29Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.…

Cross References
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Numbers 11:1
Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 14:2
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:21
"Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

Numbers 14:39
And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.

Numbers 32:11
Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--

Deuteronomy 1:34
When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,


Treasury of Scripture

Say to them, As truly as I live, said the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

as truly

Numbers 14:21,23
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD…

Numbers 26:64,65
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai…

Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

as ye have

Psalm 14:2
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

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6. Joshua and Caleb labor to still them
11. God threatens them
13. Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon
26. The Murmurers are debarred from entering into the land
36. The men who raised the evil report die by a plague
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(28) As ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do unto you.--The Israelites had exclaimed in their sinful murmuring against God, "Would God we had died in the wilderness" (Numbers 14:2); and God declares in His wrathful displeasure that the judgment which they had thus invoked should be inflicted upon them, and that their carcases should fall in the wilderness.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So tell them:
אֱמֹ֣ר (’ĕ·mōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

As surely as I
אָ֙נִי֙ (’ā·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

live,
חַי־ (ḥay-)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

declares
נְאֻם־ (nə·’um-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5002: An oracle

the LORD,
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

I will do
אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה (’e·‘ĕ·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

to you
לָכֶֽם׃ (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

exactly
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

I heard
בְּאָזְנָ֑י (bə·’ā·zə·nāy)
Preposition-b | Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 241: Broadness, the ear

you say.
דִּבַּרְתֶּ֖ם (dib·bar·tem)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue


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