But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
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But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
and your children whom you said will be for plunder. And I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected.
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But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
But your children, (which ye said shoulde be a pray) them will I bring in, and they shall knowe the lande which ye haue refused:
But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.
`As to your infants -- of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become -- I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;
As for your infants—of whom you have said, They become a spoil—I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which you have kicked against;
But your little ones who you said would be victims, I will take them into the land. They will experience the land that you have rejected!
and your children whom you said will be for plunder. And I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected.
But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.
But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
However, I will take your children—those you said would be taken away as plunder—into the country you rejected, and they will appreciate it.
And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.
But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לָבַ֣ז spoil H957 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לָבַ֣ז spoil H957 occurs in 25 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 27 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 22 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְטַ֨פְּכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם לָבַ֣ז יִהְיֶ֑ה וְהֵבֵיאתִ֣י אֹתָ֔ם וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ אֶת הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מְאַסְתֶּ֖ם בָּֽהּ
But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁ παιδίον ὅς εἶπον ἐν διαρπαγή εἰμί εἰςἄγω αὐτός εἰς ὁ γῆ καί κληρονομέω ὁ γῆ ὅς σύ ἀποἵστημι ἀπό αὐτός
And your little ones, who you⌃ said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which you⌃ rejected.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְטַּפְלְכוֹן דִי אֲמַרְתּוּן לְבִזָא יְהֵי וְאָעֵל יַתְהוֹן וְיֵדְעוּן יָת אַרְעָא דִי קַצְתּוּן בַּהּ
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְטַפְלְכוֹן דַאֲמַרְתּוּן דִלְבִיזָא יְהוֹן וְאָעֵיל יַתְהוֹן וְיִנְדְעוּן יַת אַרְעָא דְקַצְתּוּן בָּהּ
But your children, who you said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you rejected;
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is baz (“spoil”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 14:31 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.