Numbers 14:17
New International Version
“Now may the Lord’s strength be displayed, just as you have declared:

New Living Translation
“Please, Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed. For you said,

English Standard Version
And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:

King James Bible
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

New King James Version
And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying,

New American Standard Bible
So now, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying,

NASB 1995
“But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,

NASB 1977
“But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as Thou hast declared,

Legacy Standard Bible
So now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,

Amplified Bible
But now, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying,

Christian Standard Bible
“So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as you have spoken:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as You have spoken:

American Standard Version
And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And now let your power be great LORD JEHOVAH, as you have spoken and you have said.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spakest, saying,

Contemporary English Version
Show us your great power, LORD. You promised

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let their the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:

English Revised Version
And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Lord, let your power be as great as when you said,

Good News Translation
So now, LORD, I pray, show us your power and do what you promised when you said,

International Standard Version
"Now, let the power of the LORD be magnified, just as you promised when you said,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And now, I pray Thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as Thou hast spoken, saying:

Literal Standard Version
And now, please let the power of my Lord be great, as You have spoken, saying,

Majority Standard Bible
So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:

New American Bible
Now then, may my Lord’s forbearance be great, even as you have said,

NET Bible
So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said,

New Revised Standard Version
And now, therefore, let the power of the LORD be great in the way that you promised when you spoke, saying,

New Heart English Bible
Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

World English Bible
Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
'And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying:

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Moses Intercedes for the People
16‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’ 17So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared: 18‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’…

Cross References
Numbers 14:16
Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

Numbers 14:18
The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.'


Treasury of Scripture

And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

Micah 3:8
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Matthew 9:6,8
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house…

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Numbers 14
1. The people murmur at the news
6. Joshua and Caleb labor to still them
11. God threatens them
13. Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon
26. The Murmurers are debarred from entering into the land
36. The men who raised the evil report die by a plague
40. The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten














(17, 18) And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great.--The word Lord in Numbers 14:17 should not be printed in large capitals in this place, as in the Authorised Version of 1611, inasmuch as it is the rendering of Adonai, not of Jehovah, as in Numbers 14:18. Moses here employs a second argument, founded on the revelation of God's name (i.e., His nature), as made to him on Mount Sinai (Exodus 34:6-7), the substance of which he here recites in the same terms.

Verse 17. - And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great. Here the argument of Moses rises to a higher level; he ventures to put God in mind of what he had himself declared to Moses in the fullest revelation which he had ever made of his own unchangeable character, viz., that of all Divine prerogatives, the most Divine was that of forgiving sins and showing mercy. According as thou hast spoken. See on Exodus 34:6, 7. The words are not quoted exactly as there given, but are substantially the same.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So now
וְעַתָּ֕ה (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

I pray,
נָ֖א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

may the power
כֹּ֣חַ (kō·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

of the Lord
אֲדֹנָ֑י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

be magnified,
יִגְדַּל־ (yiḡ·dal-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1431: To grow up, become great

just as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

You have declared:
דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ (dib·bar·tā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue


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