If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
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If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us to this land, and he will give it to us, a land that is flowing milk and honey.
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If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
If the Lord loue vs, he will bring vs into this land, and giue it vs, which is a land that floweth with milke and honie.
If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.
if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;
if YHWH has delighted in us, then He has brought us into this land, and has given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;
If Yahweh is pleased with us, then he will take us into this land and give it to us. The land flows with milk and honey.
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us to this land, and he will give it to us, a land that is flowing milk and honey.
If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;
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.
If the LORD delighteth in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
If the Lord is happy with us, he will take us there and give it to us, a land that's so productive it's like flowing with milk and honey.
And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us — a land which floweth with milk and honey.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
זָבַ֥ת to flow H2100 occurs in 41 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 24 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 17 Hebrew tokens and 21 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.
Topical passages linked to Numbers 14:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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אִם חָפֵ֥ץ בָּ֨נוּ֙ יְהוָ֔ה וְהֵבִ֤יא אֹתָ֨נוּ֙ אֶל הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֔את וּנְתָנָ֖הּ לָ֑נוּ אֶ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁר הִ֛וא זָבַ֥ת חָלָ֖ב וּדְבָֽשׁ
If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
World English Bible · Public Domain
εἰ αἱρετίζω ἐγώ κύριος εἰςἄγω ἐγώ εἰς ὁ γῆ οὗτος καί δίδωμι αὐτός ἐγώ γῆ ὅστις εἰμί ῥέω γάλα καί μέλι
If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
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.
אִם רַעֲוָא בָנָא קֳדָם יְיָ וְיָעֵל יָתָנָא לְאַרְעָא הָדָא וְיִתְּנִנַהּ לָנָא אַרְעָא דִי הִיא עַבְדָא חֲלַב וּדְבָשׁ
(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.
אִין רַעֲוָא דַיְיָ אִית בָּנָא וְאָעֵיל יָתָנָא לְאַרְעָא הָדָא וְיִתְּנִינָהּ לָנָא אַרְעָא דְהִיא עַבְדָא חֲלַב וּדְבָשׁ
If the Lord hath pleasure in us, He will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land producing milk and honey.
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 17 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is zûwb (“to flow”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 14:8 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.