Numbers 14:20
New International Version
The LORD replied, “I have forgiven them, as you asked.

New Living Translation
Then the LORD said, “I will pardon them as you have requested.

English Standard Version
Then the LORD said, “I have pardoned, according to your word.

Berean Standard Bible
“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.

King James Bible
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

New King James Version
Then the LORD said: “I have pardoned, according to your word;

New American Standard Bible
So the LORD said, “I have forgiven them in accordance with your word;

NASB 1995
So the LORD said, “I have pardoned them according to your word;

NASB 1977
So the LORD said, “I have pardoned them according to your word;

Legacy Standard Bible
So Yahweh said, “I have pardoned them according to your word;

Amplified Bible
So the LORD said, “I have pardoned them according to your word;

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD responded, “I have pardoned them as you requested.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD responded, “I have pardoned them as you requested.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And LORD JEHOVAH said to Moshe: “I have forgiven them, according to your word.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to thy word.

Contemporary English Version
Then the LORD said to Moses: In answer to your prayer, I do forgive them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.

English Revised Version
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD said, "I forgive them, as you have asked.

Good News Translation
The LORD answered, "I will forgive them, as you have asked.

International Standard Version
The LORD responded, "I've forgiven them based on what you've said.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the LORD said: 'I have pardoned according to thy word'

Literal Standard Version
And YHWH says, “I have forgiven according to your word,

Majority Standard Bible
“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.

New American Bible
The LORD answered: I pardon them as you have asked.

NET Bible
Then the LORD said, "I have forgiven them as you asked.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD said, “I do forgive, just as you have asked;

New Heart English Bible
The LORD said, "I have pardoned according to your word.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

World English Bible
Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word;

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith, 'I have forgiven, according to thy word;

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Context
God's Forgiveness and Judgment
20“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied. 21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,…

Cross References
Psalm 99:8
O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.

Jeremiah 31:2
This is what the LORD says: "The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest."

Micah 7:18
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance--who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?


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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














(20) I have pardoned according to thy word.--The holiness and justice of the Lord required that punishment should overtake the transgressors, as it had been foretold in Exodus 32:34. Nevertheless the prayer of Moses was heard and answered, and the people were not wholly exterminated.

(21, 22, 23) But as truly as I live . . . --The three verses may be rendered as follows:--Nevertheless, as truly as I live, and all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, none of those men who have seen my glory and my signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and (who) tempted me these ten times, and hearkened not unto my voice, shall see the land which I sware unto their fathers, &c. Some have explained the words these ten times by adding to the eight murmurings which are recorded--(1) at the Red Sea (Exodus 14:11-12); (2) at Marah (Exodus 15:23); (3) in the wilderness of Sin (Exodus 16:2); (4) at Rephidim (Exodus 17:1); (5) at Horeb (Exodus 32); (6) at Taberah (Numbers 11:1); (7) at the graves of lust (Numbers 11:4); and (8) at Kadesh (Numbers 14)--the transgressions of certain individuals--(1) in keeping the manna until the morning of the day after that on which it was gathered (Exodus 16:20); and (2) in going out to gather the manna on the seventh day, when none fell (Exodus 16:27). It is more probable, however, that the number ten is used here, as elsewhere (comp. Genesis 31:7), as denoting a full measure. The persons to whom the penalty applied are specified in Numbers 14:29 : viz., those who were included in the first census. The principal exceptions to the threat of exclusion from the land of promise are specified in Numbers 14:30-31 : viz., Joshua and Caleb, and the generation which had not reached twenty years of age at the exodus. The other exception, or exceptions, if such there were, belonged to the tribe of Levi, which was not included in the census which was first taken, nor represented by the spies. It has been inferred from the fact that Nadab and Abihu only went up into the mountain with Moses and Aaron, that Eleazar, who entered Canaan with Joshua (Joshua 14:1), was under twenty years of age at the exodus. It may be observed that it does not follow that the regulation respecting the age of the Levites at the time of entering upon their service applied also to the priests, and consequently Eleazar may have been under twenty years of age at the time of his consecration. (Comp. 2Chronicles 31:17.) There seems, however, to be no sufficient authority for such a supposition. . . .

Verse 20. - I have pardoned. Whatever necessary exceptions and qualifications might remain to be afterwards declared, the great fact that he forgave the nation, and that the nation should not die, is announced without delay and without reservation (cf. 2 Samuel 12:13). According to thy word. Such power had God been pleased to give unto man, that at the intercession of the mediator a whole nation is delivered from imminent death and destruction.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“I have pardoned them
סָלַ֖חְתִּי (sā·laḥ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5545: To forgive, pardon

as you requested,”
כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃ (kiḏ·ḇā·re·ḵā)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

the LORD
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

replied.
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say


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