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Numbers 14:33

King James Version (KJV)

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Numbers 14:33

Verse 33 of 45

Scripture focus

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:33 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 14:33

Theological / Devotional

Wander. Literally, “be shepherds.” (The same original word occurs in Gen. 13:7; 47:3; Ex. 2:17; Isa. 31:4; Jer. 6:3; etc.) The people were to wander about in the wilderness, taking care of their flocks.

Wasted. The word thus translated does not mean “to waste away” or “to rot,” but “to be used up,” “to be competed,” “to be ended.” Thus it refers to the complete toll to be taken of those condemned to die. Compare the following verses, in which the same word is translated “is spent” (Gen. 47:18), “had done” (Joshua 5:8), “are ended” (Job 31:40) “is perfect” (Isa. 18:5).

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