Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

但他们中间多半是神不喜欢的人，所以在旷野倒毙。

但他们中间多半是上帝不喜欢的人，所以倒毙在旷野里了。

但他们中间多半是神不喜欢的人，所以倒毙在旷野里了。

尽管如此，他们当中大多数人不讨上帝的喜悦，倒毙在旷野。

但他们大多数的人，都得不到神的喜悦，因此他们都死在旷野。

但是神不喜悦他们中的大多数人，所以他们倒毙在旷野。

但他們中間多半是神不喜歡的人，所以在曠野倒斃。

但他們中間多半是上帝不喜歡的人，所以倒斃在曠野裏了。

但他們中間多半是神不喜歡的人，所以倒斃在曠野裏了。

儘管如此，他們當中大多數人不討上帝的喜悅，倒斃在曠野。

但他們大多數的人，都得不到神的喜悅，因此他們都死在曠野。

然而他們大多數人、上帝並不喜悅：他們都在野地覆亡了。

但是神不喜悅他們中的大多數人，所以他們倒斃在曠野。

然其人多為上帝所不悅、故傾覆於野、

其中多人為上帝不悅、使屍橫遍野、

但彼眾多半不為天主所悅、其屍偃仆於野、

惟當時多數之人、不為天主所悅、卒致橫屍遍野。

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

But God was not pleased with most of them. Their bodies were scattered in the desert.

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, since they were struck down in the wilderness.

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased; for their dead bodies were spread out in the wilderness.

But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness?

So I want to remind you, though you already know these things, that Jesus first rescued the nation of Israel from Egypt, but later he destroyed those who did not remain faithful.

were struck dead with a plague before the Lord.

Not one person on this list had been among those listed in the previous registration taken by Moses and Aaron in the wilderness of Sinai.For the Lord had said of them,“ They will all die in the wilderness.” Not one of them survived except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Now tell them this:‘ As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.You will not enter and occupy the land I swore to give you. The only exceptions will be Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.“‘ You said your children would be carried off as plunder. Well, I will bring them safely into the land, and they will enjoy what you have despised.But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness.And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.“‘ Because your men explored the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years— a year for each day, suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.’I, the Lord, have spoken! I will certainly do these things to every member of the community who has conspired against me. They will be destroyed here in this wilderness, and here they will die!”

And the Lord said to Moses,“ How long will these people treat me with contempt? Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I have done among them?I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are!”

Therefore, he solemnly swore that he would kill them in the wilderness,

But in spite of this, the people kept sinning. Despite his wonders, they refused to trust him.So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror.When God began killing them, they finally sought him. They repented and took God seriously.

So in my anger I took an oath:‘ They will never enter my place of rest.’”

“ When the Lord heard your complaining, he became very angry. So he solemnly swore,‘ Not one of you from this wicked generation will live to see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,

Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!

We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.You spread out our sins before you— our secret sins— and you see them all.

The Lord struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.“ When all the men of fighting age had died,