14 Then they shall say to the inhabitants of the land, (for they have heard, that thou Lord, art among this people, and that thou, Lord, art seen [a]face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou (A)goest before them, by daytime in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.)

15 That thou wilt kill this people as [b]one man: so the heathen which have heard the fame of thee, shall thus say,

16 Because the Lord was not (B)able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore hath he slain them in the wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:14 Hebrew, eye to eye.
  2. Numbers 14:15 So that none shall escape.

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