16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.


In Context

13 And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)

14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that you LORD are among this people, that you LORD are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

15 Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

17 And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

18 The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.

Numbers 14:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:16'The Lord was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath; so he slaughtered them in the desert.'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:16He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:16Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:16Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:16'Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:16From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them — He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.