Numbers 14:31
Good News Translation
You said that your children would be captured, but I will bring them into the land that you rejected, and it will be their home.

New Revised Standard Version
But your little ones, who you said would become booty, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have despised.

Contemporary English Version
You were worried that your own children would be captured. But I, the LORD, will let them enter the land you have rejected.

New American Bible
Your little ones, however, who you said would be taken as spoil, I will bring in, and they shall know the land you rejected.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.

little ones

Numbers 26:6,64 And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family of the Charmites. . . .

Deuteronomy 1:39 Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.

ye said

Numbers 14:3 Would God that we had died in Egypt: and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?

know.

Genesis 25:34 And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.

Psalm 106:24 And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,

Proverbs 1:25,30 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared. . . .

Matthew 22:5 But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise.

Acts 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

Hebrews 12:16,17 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright. . . .

Context
God's Forgiveness and Judgment
30Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun. 31But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.32Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.…
Cross References
Numbers 14:3
Would God that we had died in Egypt: and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?

Deuteronomy 1:39
Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.

Psalm 106:24
And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,

Ezekiel 20:18
And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:

Numbers 14:30
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