12I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they."


In Context

9 Only do not rebel against the Lord . And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will swallow them up. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them."

10 But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the Tent of Meeting to all the Israelites.

11 The Lord said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?

12 I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they."

13 Moses said to the Lord , "Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.

14 And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, O Lord , are with these people and that you, O Lord , have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 14:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:12I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they.