Numbers 14:16
Good News Translation
that you killed your people in the wilderness because you were not able to bring them into the land you promised to give them.

New Revised Standard Version
‘It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land he swore to give them that he has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

New American Bible
‘The LORD was not able to bring this people into the land he swore to give them; that is why he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

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He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 9:28 Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he promised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that he might kill them in the wilderness,

Deuteronomy 32:26,27 I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men. . . .

Joshua 7:9 The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

Context
Moses Intercedes for the People
15May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say: 16He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.17Let then the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:…
Cross References
Numbers 14:17
Let then the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:

Deuteronomy 9:28
Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he promised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that he might kill them in the wilderness,

Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the Jordan, as we began.

Numbers 14:15
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