^14:34According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days—one day for a year—you will suffer for⁵⁸ your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.⁵⁹

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Footnotes

58 Heb “you shall bear.”
59 The phrase refers to the consequences of open hostility to God, or perhaps abandonment of God. The noun תְּנוּאָה (ténu’ah) occurs in Job 33:10 (perhaps). The related verb occurs in Num 30:6 (30:5 ) and 32:7 with the sense of “disallow, discourage.” The sense of the expression adopted in this translation comes from the meticulous study of R. Loewe, “Divine Frustration Exegetically Frustrated,” Words and Meanings, 137–58.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You will bear the consequences of your iniquities forty years based on the number of the forty days that you scouted the land, a year for each day. You will know my displeasure.

NLTNew Living Translation

“ ‘Because your men explored the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years—a year for each day, suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, a day for each year, you will bear your sins forty years, and you will know my opposition.’

KJV 1900King James Version

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

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