Numbers 14:15
◄  Numbers 14:15  ►
New International Version (©2011)
If you put all these people to death, leaving none alive, the nations who have heard this report about you will say,

New Living Translation (©2007)
Now if you slaughter all these people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If You kill this people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of Your fame will declare,

International Standard Version (©2012)
But if you slaughter this people all at the same time, then the nations who heard about your fame will say,

NET Bible (©2006)
If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But if you kill all these people at the same time, then the nations who have heard these reports about you will say,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

American King James Version
Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

American Standard Version
Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

Douay-Rheims Bible
May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:

Darby Bible Translation
if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,

English Revised Version
Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

World English Bible
Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
'And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:11-19 Moses made humble intercession for Israel. Herein he was a type of Christ, who prayed for those that despitefully used him. The pardon of a nation's sin, is the turning away the nation's punishment; and for that Moses is here so earnest. Moses argued that, consistently with God's character, in his abundant mercies, he could forgive them.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now if thou shall kill all this people, as one man,.... Suddenly, and at once, as might be done by a pestilence; and as 185,000 were smitten at once, and as thought by the same disease, by the Angel of the Lord in the camp of the Assyrians, in later times, 2 Kings 19:35,

then the nations which have heard the fame of thee; the Egyptians, Canaanites, and others, as Aben Ezra observes; who had heard the report of the wonderful things done by him for Israel, and of the great favours he had bestowed upon them, and so of his power, and goodness, and other perfections displayed therein, which made him appear to be preferable to all the gods of the Gentiles:

will speak, saying; as follows.

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Moses Intercedes for the People
13And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;) 14And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that you LORD are among this people, that you LORD are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. 15Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, …

Exodus 32:12 Why should the Egyptians say, 'It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.
Numbers 14:16 The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.'