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Numbers 14:29
Your 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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses the Israelite congregation at the edge of Canaan, pronouncing judgment immediately after they demand to return to Egypt.
The words — The Hebrew יִפְּלוּ (yi.pe.lu) means "they will fall," paired with פִּגְרֵיכֶם (pi.grei.khem), "your corpses," to specify the physical death of the census-enrolled generation in this wilderness.
The thread — This decree fulfills the census parameters of Numbers 1:45, aligns with the survival record in Numbers 26:64, and is referenced in 1 Corinthians 10:5 as a historical account of divine judgment.
Why it lands — The text states that the generation aged twenty and older will physically perish in the wilderness as a direct result of their rebellion, requiring readers to acknowledge the irreversible consequence of rejecting God's command.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Cross-references
- Numbers 1:45 So all the Israelites twenty years of age or older who could serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.
- Numbers 26:64 Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- 1 Corinthians 10:5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- 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 14:32 As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
- Jude 1:5 Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.