Numbers 14:23
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New International Version (©2011)
not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
will ever see the land I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have despised Me will see it.

International Standard Version (©2012)
will ever see the land that I promised to their ancestors. Those who spurned me won't see it.

NET Bible (©2006)
they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
None of those who treat me with contempt will see it!

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to give unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

American King James Version
Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

American Standard Version
surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.

Darby Bible Translation
shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.

English Revised Version
surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:

Webster's Bible Translation
Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

World English Bible
surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:

Young's Literal Translation
they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:20-35 The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them at their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were made to groan under the burden of their own sin, which was too heavy for them to bear. Ye shall know my breach of promise, both the causes of it, that it is procured by your sin, for God never leaves any till they first leave him; and the consequences of it, that will produce your ruin. But your little ones, now under twenty years old, which ye, in your unbelief, said should be a prey, them will I bring in. God will let them know that he can put a difference between the guilty and the innocent, and cut them off without touching their children. Thus God would not utterly take away his loving kindness.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - Surely they shall not see. אִםאּיּרְאוּ, "if they shall see," according to the usual Hebrew idiom. Cf. Psalm 107:11 (Septuagint), Hebrews 4:3, ὡς ὤμοσα... εἰ εἰσελεύσονται.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers,.... Not possess and enjoy the land of Canaan, which the Lord by an oath had promised their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to their seed; and now he swears that these men, who had so often tempted him, and been disobedient to him, should not inherit it; so the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem take it for an oath; see Hebrews 3:11,

neither shall any of them that provoked me see it; that provoked him by the ill report they had brought of the land, by their unbelief, by their murmurings, and mutiny.

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God's Forgiveness and Judgment
…22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; 23Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: 24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into where he went; and his seed shall possess it. …

Hebrews 3:18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
Numbers 26:65 For the LORD had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Numbers 32:11 Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--
Deuteronomy 1:8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the LORD swore he would give to your fathers--to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--and to their descendants after them."
Psalm 95:11 So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"