逐节对照
- Amplified Bible - As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment and contend with you,” says the Lord God.
- 新标点和合本 - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野刑罚你们的列祖，也必照样刑罚你们。这是主耶和华说的。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野审判你们的祖先，也必照样审判你们。这是主耶和华说的。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野审判你们的祖先，也必照样审判你们。这是主耶和华说的。
- 当代译本 - 我从前在埃及的旷野怎样审判你们的祖先，也必怎样审判你们。这是主耶和华说的。
- 圣经新译本 - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野审判你们的祖先，也必怎样审判你们。这是主耶和华的宣告。
- 现代标点和合本 - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野刑罚你们的列祖，也必照样刑罚你们。这是主耶和华说的。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野刑罚你们的列祖，也必照样刑罚你们。这是主耶和华说的。
- New International Version - As I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign Lord.
- New International Reader's Version - Long ago, I judged your people in the desert of Egypt. In the same way, I will judge you,” announces the Lord and King.
- English Standard Version - As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God.
- New Living Translation - I will judge you there just as I did your ancestors in the wilderness after bringing them out of Egypt, says the Sovereign Lord.
- The Message - “‘As I faced your parents with judgment in the desert of Egypt, so I’ll face you with judgment. I’ll scrutinize and search every person as you arrive, and I’ll bring you under the bond of the covenant. I’ll cull out the rebels and traitors. I’ll lead them out of their exile, but I won’t bring them back to Israel. “‘Then you’ll realize that I am God.
- Christian Standard Bible - Just as I entered into judgment with your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
- New American Standard Bible - Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares the Lord God.
- New King James Version - Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord God.
- American Standard Version - Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
- King James Version - Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
- New English Translation - Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the sovereign Lord.
- World English Bible - Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- 新標點和合本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野刑罰你們的列祖，也必照樣刑罰你們。這是主耶和華說的。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野審判你們的祖先，也必照樣審判你們。這是主耶和華說的。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野審判你們的祖先，也必照樣審判你們。這是主耶和華說的。
- 當代譯本 - 我從前在埃及的曠野怎樣審判你們的祖先，也必怎樣審判你們。這是主耶和華說的。
- 聖經新譯本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野審判你們的祖先，也必怎樣審判你們。這是主耶和華的宣告。
- 呂振中譯本 - 我怎樣在 埃及 地的曠野判罰你們祖先，我也要怎樣判罰你們： 這是 主永恆主發神諭說 的 。
- 現代標點和合本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野刑罰你們的列祖，也必照樣刑罰你們。這是主耶和華說的。
- 文理和合譯本 - 我鞫爾、如在埃及曠野鞫爾列祖、主耶和華言之矣、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 與昔在埃及曠野、斥爾祖之非無異、我耶和華、已言之矣。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我斥爾非、如昔在 伊及 曠野斥爾祖之非、 或作我必審鞫爾如昔在伊及曠野審鞫爾祖然 此乃主天主所言、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Así como juzgué a sus antepasados en el desierto de Egipto, también los juzgaré a ustedes. Yo, el Señor omnipotente, lo afirmo.
- 현대인의 성경 - 내가 너희 조상들을 이집트 땅에서 이끌어낸 후에 광야에서 그들을 심문한 것처럼 너희를 심문하겠다. 이것은 나 주 여호와의 말이다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Господь. –
- Восточный перевод - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Вечный. –
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Вечный. –
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Вечный. –
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tout comme j’ai jugé vos ancêtres dans le désert d’Egypte, je vous jugerai vous aussi, le Seigneur, l’Eternel, le déclare.
- Nova Versão Internacional - Assim como julguei os seus antepassados no deserto do Egito, também os julgarei. Palavra do Soberano, o Senhor.
- Hoffnung für alle - Wie ich euren Vorfahren in der Wüste Ägyptens das Urteil gesprochen habe, so werde ich es auch über euch verhängen. Darauf könnt ihr euch verlassen!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ta sẽ xét xử các ngươi tại đó như Ta đã xét xử tổ phụ các ngươi trong hoang mạc sau khi đem chúng ra khỏi Ai Cập, Chúa Hằng Hữu Chí Cao phán.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เราพิพากษาบรรพบุรุษของเจ้าในถิ่นกันดารของอียิปต์อย่างไร เราจะพิพากษาเจ้าอย่างนั้น พระยาห์เวห์องค์เจ้าชีวิตประกาศดังนั้น
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เราจะลงโทษพวกเจ้า อย่างที่เราลงโทษบรรพบุรุษของเจ้าในถิ่นทุรกันดารของแผ่นดินอียิปต์” พระผู้เป็นเจ้าผู้ยิ่งใหญ่ประกาศดังนั้น
交叉引用
- Numbers 14:1 - Then all the congregation [of Israel] raised their voices and cried out, and the people wept that night.
- Numbers 14:2 - All the Israelites murmured [in discontent] against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!
- Numbers 14:3 - Why is the Lord bringing us to this land [of Canaan], to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
- Numbers 14:4 - So they said one to another, “Let us appoint a [new] leader and return to Egypt.”
- Numbers 14:5 - Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.
- Numbers 14:6 - Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes [as a sign of grief],
- Numbers 14:7 - and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land through which we passed as spies is an exceedingly good land.
- Numbers 14:8 - If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.
- Numbers 14:9 - Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”
- Numbers 14:10 - But all the congregation said to stone Joshua and Caleb with stones. But the glory and brilliance of the Lord appeared at the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle) before all the sons of Israel.
- Numbers 14:11 - The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me disrespectfully and reject Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the [miraculous] signs which I have performed among them?
- Numbers 14:12 - I will strike them with the pestilence (plague) and dispossess them, and will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”
- Numbers 14:13 - But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up these people from among them,
- Numbers 14:14 - and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are among these people [of Israel], that You, Lord, are seen face to face, while Your cloud stands over them; and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
- Numbers 14:15 - Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations (Gentiles) that have heard of Your fame will say,
- Numbers 14:16 - ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring these people into the land which He promised to give them, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
- Numbers 14:17 - But now, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying,
- Numbers 14:18 - ‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving wickedness and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting (avenging) the wickedness and guilt of the fathers on the children, to the third and fourth generations [that is, calling the children to account for the sins of their fathers].’
- Numbers 14:19 - Please pardon the wickedness and guilt of these people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You have forgiven these people, from Egypt even until now.”
- Numbers 14:20 - So the Lord said, “I have pardoned them according to your word;
- Numbers 14:21 - but indeed as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.
- Numbers 14:22 - Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
- Numbers 14:23 - will by no means see the land which I swore to [give to] their fathers; nor will any who treated me disrespectfully and rejected Me see it.
- Numbers 14:24 - But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.
- Numbers 14:25 - Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valley; tomorrow turn and set out for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.”
- Numbers 14:26 - The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 14:27 - “How long shall I put up with this evil congregation who murmur [in discontent] against Me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they are making against Me.
- Numbers 14:28 - Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just what you have spoken in My hearing I will most certainly do to you;
- Numbers 14:29 - your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, even all who were numbered of you, your entire number from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me.
- Numbers 14:30 - Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, not one of you shall enter the land in which I swore [an oath] to settle you.
- Numbers 14:31 - But your children whom you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they will know the land which you have despised and rejected.
- Numbers 14:32 - But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.
- Numbers 14:33 - Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:34 - According to the number of days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], forty days, for each day, you shall bear and suffer a year for your sins and guilt, for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement because of your sin].
- Numbers 14:35 - I, the Lord, have spoken. I will most certainly do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, and plagues], and here they shall die.’ ”
- Numbers 14:36 - As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and made all the congregation murmur and complain against him by bringing back a bad report concerning the land,
- Numbers 14:37 - even those [ten] men who brought back the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the Lord.
- Numbers 14:38 - But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.
- Numbers 14:39 - Moses spoke the Lord’s words to all the Israelites, and the people mourned greatly.
- Numbers 14:40 - They got up early in the morning and went up to the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Look, here we are; we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised.”
- Numbers 14:41 - But Moses said, “Why then are you transgressing the commandment of the Lord, when it will not succeed?
- Numbers 14:42 - Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you.
- Numbers 14:43 - For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, because you have turned away from following the Lord; therefore the Lord will not be with you.”
- Numbers 14:44 - But [in their arrogance] they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country; however, neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses left the camp.
- Numbers 14:45 - Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and struck the Israelites and scattered them as far as Hormah.
- Exodus 32:7 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
- Exodus 32:8 - They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’ ”
- Exodus 32:9 - The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked (stubborn, rebellious) people.
- Exodus 32:10 - Now therefore, let Me alone and do not interfere, so that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you (your descendants) a great nation.”
- Exodus 32:11 - But Moses appeased and entreated the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
- Exodus 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil [intent] their God brought them out to kill them in the mountains and destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn away from Your burning anger and change Your mind about harming Your people.
- Exodus 32:13 - Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel (Jacob), Your servants to whom You swore [an oath] by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”
- Exodus 32:14 - So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He had said He would do to His people.
- Exodus 32:15 - Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both sides—they were written on one side and on the other.
- Exodus 32:16 - The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
- Exodus 32:17 - Now when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of battle in the camp.”
- Exodus 32:18 - But Moses said, “It is not the sound of the cry of victory, Nor is it the sound of the cry of defeat; But I hear the sound of singing.”
- Exodus 32:19 - And as soon as he approached the camp and he saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned; and he threw the tablets from his hands and smashed them at the foot of the mountain.
- Exodus 32:20 - Then Moses took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it on the surface of the water and made the Israelites drink it.
- Exodus 32:21 - Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought so great a sin on them?”
- Exodus 32:22 - Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil.
- Exodus 32:23 - For they said to me, ‘Make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
- Exodus 32:24 - I said to them, ‘Let whoever has gold [jewelry], take it off.’ So they gave it to me; then I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”
- Exodus 32:25 - Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control—for Aaron had let them get out of control to the point of being an object of mockery among their enemies—
- Exodus 32:26 - then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on the Lord’s side, come to me!” And all the sons of Levi [the priestly tribe] gathered together to him.
- Exodus 32:27 - He said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Every man strap his sword on his thigh and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbor [all who continue pagan worship].’ ”
- Exodus 32:28 - So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people [of Israel] were killed that day.
- Exodus 32:29 - Then Moses said [to the Levites], “Dedicate yourselves today to the Lord—for each man has been against his own son and his own brother [in his attempt to escape execution]—so that He may restore and bestow His blessing on you this day.”
- Exodus 32:30 - Then the next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
- Exodus 32:31 - So Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin [against You], and have made themselves a god of gold.
- Exodus 32:32 - Yet now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written (kill me)!”
- Exodus 32:33 - But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book [not you].
- Exodus 32:34 - But now go, lead the people [to the place] where I have told you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you; nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin!”
- Exodus 32:35 - So the Lord struck the people with a plague, because of what they had done with the calf which Aaron had made [for them].
- Numbers 16:1 - Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, descendants of Reuben, took action,
- Numbers 16:2 - and they rose up [in rebellion] before Moses, together with some of the Israelites, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation chosen in the assembly, men of distinction.
- Numbers 16:3 - They assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”
- Numbers 16:4 - And when Moses heard this, he fell face downward;
- Numbers 16:5 - and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, “In the morning the Lord will show who belongs to Him, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Himself; the one whom He will choose He will bring near to Himself.
- Numbers 16:6 - Do this: Take censers for yourselves, Korah and all your company,
- Numbers 16:7 - then put fire in them and place incense on them in the presence of the Lord tomorrow; and the man whom the Lord chooses shall be the one who is holy. You have gone far enough, you sons of Levi.”
- Numbers 16:8 - Then Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi,
- Numbers 16:9 - does it seem but a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
- Numbers 16:10 - and that He has brought you near [to Him], Korah and all your brothers, sons of Levi with you? Would you seek the priesthood also?
- Numbers 16:11 - Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against the Lord; but as for Aaron, who is he that you murmur against him?”
- Numbers 16:12 - Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said [defiantly], “We will not come up.
- Numbers 16:13 - Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land [of plenty] flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, but you would also lord it over us?
- Numbers 16:14 - Indeed, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!”
- Numbers 16:15 - Then Moses became very angry and said to the Lord, “Pay no attention to their offering! I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them.”
- Numbers 16:16 - Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company are to appear before the Lord tomorrow, both you and they along with Aaron.
- Numbers 16:17 - Each of you take his censer and put incense on it, and each of you bring his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty censers; also you and Aaron shall each bring his censer.”
- Numbers 16:18 - So they each took his own censer and put fire on it and laid incense on it; and they stood at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), with Moses and Aaron.
- Numbers 16:19 - Then Korah assembled all the congregation against Moses and Aaron at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle). And the glory and brilliance of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.
- Numbers 16:20 - Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 16:21 - “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, so that I may consume them immediately.”
- Numbers 16:22 - But they fell on their faces [before the Lord], and said, “O God, God of the spirits of all flesh! When one man sins, will You be angry with the entire congregation?”
- Numbers 16:23 - Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 16:24 - “Say to the congregation, ‘Get away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’ ”
- Numbers 16:25 - Then Moses arose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.
- Numbers 16:26 - And he said to the congregation, “Get away from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, or you will be swept away in all their sin.”
- Numbers 16:27 - So they got back from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the doorway of their tents with their wives and their sons and their little children.
- Numbers 16:28 - Then Moses said, “By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works; for I do not act of my own accord.
- Numbers 16:29 - If these men die the common death of all mankind or if what happens to everyone happens to them, then [you will know for sure that] the Lord has not sent me.
- Numbers 16:30 - But if the Lord creates an entirely new thing, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, along with all that belongs to them, and they descend alive into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), then you will understand that these men have spurned and rejected the Lord!”
- Numbers 16:31 - As soon as Moses finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split open;
- Numbers 16:32 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all the men who supported Korah, with all their possessions.
- Numbers 16:33 - So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly.
- Numbers 16:34 - All Israel who were around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth may swallow us also.”
- Numbers 16:35 - Fire also came forth from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.
- Numbers 16:36 - Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 16:37 - “Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, that he is to pick up the censers from the midst of the blaze for they are holy; and you scatter the burning coals abroad.
- Numbers 16:38 - As for the censers of these people who have sinned at the cost of their lives, have the censers made into hammered sheets as a plating for the altar [of burnt offering], for they were presented before the Lord and they are sacred. They shall be a [warning] sign to the sons of Israel.”
- Numbers 16:39 - So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the Levites who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out [into broad sheets] as a plating for the [bronze] altar [of burnt offering],
- Numbers 16:40 - as a reminder to the sons of Israel so that no layman—that is, one who is not of the descendants of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the Lord; so that he will not become like Korah and as his company—just as the Lord had said to him through Moses.
- Numbers 16:41 - But on the next day the entire congregation of the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have caused the death of the people of the Lord.”
- Numbers 16:42 - When the congregation was assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned and looked at the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), and behold, the cloud covered it and the glory and brilliance of the Lord appeared.
- Numbers 16:43 - Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle),
- Numbers 16:44 - and the Lord spoke to Moses saying,
- Numbers 16:45 - “Get away from among this congregation, so that I may consume them immediately.” Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces [in silence before the Lord].
- Numbers 16:46 - Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord; the plague has begun!”
- Numbers 16:47 - So Aaron took the burning censer as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague had [already] begun among the people; and he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.
- Numbers 16:48 - He stood between the dead and the living, so that the plague was brought to an end.
- Numbers 16:49 - But those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died because of Korah.
- Numbers 16:50 - Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), for the plague had been brought to an end.
- Numbers 25:1 - Israel settled and remained in Shittim, and the people began to play the prostitute with the women of Moab [by being unfaithful to God].
- Numbers 25:2 - For they invited the Israelites to the sacrifices of their gods, and the Israelites ate [food offered to idols] and bowed down to Moab’s gods.
- Numbers 25:3 - So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor [in worship]. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
- Numbers 25:4 - The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people [who have committed sin with the Moabites], and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”
- Numbers 25:5 - So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each one of you must kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor [in worship].”
- Numbers 25:6 - Then one of the Israelites came and presented to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of the Israelites, while they were weeping [over God’s judgment] at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle).
- Numbers 25:7 - When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he left the congregation and took a spear in his hand,
- Numbers 25:8 - and he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and pierced both of them through the body, the man of Israel and the woman. Then the plague on the Israelites stopped.
- Numbers 25:9 - Nevertheless, those [Israelites] who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
- Numbers 25:10 - Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 25:11 - “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the Israelites because he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in My jealousy.
- Numbers 25:12 - Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to Phinehas My covenant of peace.
- Numbers 25:13 - And it shall be for him and his descendants after him, a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous (impassioned) for [the unique honor and respect owed to] his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.’ ”
- Numbers 25:14 - Now the name of the man of Israel who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s household among the Simeonites.
- Numbers 25:15 - The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father’s household in Midian.
- Numbers 25:16 - Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 25:17 - “Provoke hostilities with the Midianites and attack them,
- Numbers 25:18 - for they harass you with their tricks, the tricks with which they have deceived you in the matter [of the Baal] of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague because [of the Baal] of Peor.”
- Psalms 106:15 - So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.
- Psalms 106:16 - They envied Moses in the camp, And Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the Lord,
- Psalms 106:17 - Therefore the earth opened and swallowed Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.
- Psalms 106:18 - And a fire broke out in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.
- Psalms 106:19 - They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai) And worshiped a cast image.
- Psalms 106:20 - Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.
- Psalms 106:21 - They forgot God their Savior, Who had done such great things in Egypt,
- Psalms 106:22 - Wonders in the land of Ham, Awesome things at the Red Sea.
- Psalms 106:23 - Therefore He said He would destroy them, [And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
- Psalms 106:24 - Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan]; They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,
- Psalms 106:25 - But they sulked and complained in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
- Psalms 106:26 - Therefore He lifted up His hand [swearing] to them, That He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,
- Psalms 106:27 - And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].
- Psalms 106:28 - They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
- Psalms 106:29 - Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices, And a plague broke out among them.
- Psalms 106:30 - Then Phinehas [the priest] stood up and interceded, And so the plague was halted.
- Psalms 106:31 - And that was credited to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.
- Psalms 106:32 - They provoked Him to anger at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account;
- Psalms 106:33 - Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.
- Psalms 106:34 - They did not destroy the [pagan] peoples [in Canaan], As the Lord commanded them,
- Psalms 106:35 - But they mingled with the [idolatrous] nations And learned their ways,
- Psalms 106:36 - And served their idols, Which became a [dreadful] snare to them.
- Psalms 106:37 - They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons
- Psalms 106:38 - And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with their blood.
- Psalms 106:39 - In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].
- Psalms 106:40 - Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people And He detested His own inheritance.
- Psalms 106:41 - He gave them into the hands of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.
- Psalms 106:42 - Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under the [powerful] hand of their enemies.
- Psalms 106:43 - Many times He rescued them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And sank down in their wickedness.
- Psalms 106:44 - Nevertheless He looked [sympathetically] at their distress When He heard their cry;
- Psalms 106:45 - And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],
- Psalms 106:46 - He also made them objects of compassion Among those who had carried them away captive.
- Psalms 106:47 - Save us, O Lord our God, And gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks to Your holy name And glory in praising You.
- Psalms 106:48 - Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
- Ezekiel 20:21 - Yet the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, which, if a man keeps, he will live; they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them and finish My anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:13 - But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they despised and rejected My ordinances, which, if a man keeps, he will live; and they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.
- 1 Corinthians 10:5 - Nevertheless, God was not well-pleased with most of them, for they were scattered along the ground in the wilderness [because their lack of self-control led to disobedience which led to death].
- 1 Corinthians 10:6 - Now these things [the warnings and admonitions] took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did.
- 1 Corinthians 10:7 - Do not be worshipers of handmade gods, as some of them were; just as it is written [in Scripture], “The people sat down to eat and drink [after sacrificing to the golden calf at Horeb], and stood up to play [indulging in immoral activities].”
- 1 Corinthians 10:8 - We must not indulge in [nor tolerate] sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand [suddenly] fell [dead] in a single day!
- 1 Corinthians 10:9 - We must not tempt the Lord [that is, test His patience, question His purpose or exploit His goodness], as some of them did—and they were killed by serpents.
- 1 Corinthians 10:10 - And do not murmur [in unwarranted discontent], as some of them did—and were destroyed by the destroyer.
- Numbers 11:1 - Now the people became like those who complain and whine about their hardships, and the Lord heard it; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and devoured those in the outlying parts of the camp.
- Numbers 11:2 - So the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire died out.
- Numbers 11:3 - He named that place Taberah (the place of burning), because the fire of the Lord burned among them.
- Numbers 11:4 - The rabble among them [who followed Israel from Egypt] had greedy desires [for familiar and delicious food], and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
- Numbers 11:5 - We remember the fish we ate freely and without cost in Egypt, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
- Numbers 11:6 - But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing at all [in the way of food] to be seen but this manna.”
- Numbers 11:7 - The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
- Numbers 11:8 - The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes with it; and it tasted like cakes baked with fresh [olive] oil.
- Numbers 11:9 - When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell with it.
- Numbers 11:10 - Now Moses heard the people weeping [in self-pity] throughout their families, every man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the Lord blazed hotly, and Moses regarded their behavior as evil.
- Numbers 11:11 - So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have placed the burden of all these people on me?
- Numbers 11:12 - Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms as a nurse carries the nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?
- Numbers 11:13 - Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, so that we may eat.’
- Numbers 11:14 - I am not able to carry all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.
- Numbers 11:15 - So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
- Numbers 11:16 - Accordingly, the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for Me seventy men from among the elders of Israel whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers; bring them to the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle) and let them stand there with you.
- Numbers 11:17 - Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take away some of the Spirit who is upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not have to bear it all alone.
- Numbers 11:18 - Say to the people, ‘Consecrate (separate as holy) yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept [in self-pity] in the ears of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For we were well-off in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat.
- Numbers 11:19 - You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
- Numbers 11:20 - but a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and is disgusting to you—because you have rejected and despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept [in self-pity] before Him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?” ’ ”
- Numbers 11:21 - But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 [fighting men] on foot [besides all the women and children]; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat it for a whole month!’
- Numbers 11:22 - Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be collected for them to be sufficient for them?”
- Numbers 11:23 - The Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s hand (ability, power) limited (short, inadequate)? You shall see now whether My word will come to pass for you or not.”
- Numbers 11:24 - So Moses went out and spoke to the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered seventy men from among the elders of the people and stationed them around the Tent (tabernacle).
- Numbers 11:25 - Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took some of the Spirit who was upon Moses and put Him upon the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied [praising God and declaring His will], but they did not do it again.
- Numbers 11:26 - But two men had remained in the camp; one named Eldad and the other named Medad. The Spirit rested upon them (now they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the Tent), and they prophesied in the camp.
- Numbers 11:27 - So a young man ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying [extolling the praises of God and declaring His will] in the camp.”
- Numbers 11:28 - Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!”
- Numbers 11:29 - But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!”
- Numbers 11:30 - Then Moses went back into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
- Numbers 11:31 - Now there went forth a wind from the Lord and it brought quails from the sea, and let them fall [so they flew low] beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and on the other side, all around the camp, about two cubits (three feet) deep on the surface of the ground.
- Numbers 11:32 - The people spent all that day and all night and all the next day and caught and gathered the quail (the one who gathered least gathered ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves around the camp [to cure them by drying].
- Numbers 11:33 - While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.
- Numbers 11:34 - So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah (the graves of greediness), because there they buried the people who had been greedy [for more than the manna that God provided them].
- Numbers 11:35 - From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.