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Numbers 14:41

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Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

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Numbers 14:41 in other translations

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah, seeing it shall not prosper?

Numbers 14:41 · American Standard Version

Numbers 14:41 in context

  1. 39Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
  2. 40They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for we have sinned.”
  3. 41Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
  4. 42Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
  5. 43For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh; therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”