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Numbers 14:44 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the LORD’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp. "
Numbers 14:44
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
42 Don’t go up, for the LORD isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following the LORD; therefore the LORD will not be with you.”
44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the LORD’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down even to Hormah.
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Numbers 14:1
"All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."
Numbers 14:2
"All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!"
Numbers 14:3
"Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”"
Numbers 14:4
"They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”"
Numbers 14:5
"Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel."
Numbers 14:6
"Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes."
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