Numbers 14:23

14:23 they will by no means ¹  see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

Numbers 14:28-30

14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live, ²  says ³  the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. ⁴  14:29 Your dead bodies ⁵  will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. 14:30 You will by no means enter into the land where ⁶  I swore ⁷  to settle ⁸  you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:34-35

Judgment at Kadesh Barnea

1:34 When the Lord heard you, he became angry and made this vow: ⁹  1:35 “Not a single person ¹⁰  of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

Hebrews 3:11

3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” ¹¹ 

Hebrews 3:18

3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

Hebrews 4:3

4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” ¹²  And yet God’s works ¹³  were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 4:5

4:5 but to repeat the text cited earlier: ¹⁴  “They will never enter my rest!”

¹ tn The word אִם (’im) indicates a negative oath formula: “if” means “they will not.” It is elliptical. In a human oath one would be saying: “The Lord do to me if they see…,” meaning “they will by no means see.” Here God is swearing that they will not see the land.

² sn Here again is the oath that God swore in his wrath, an oath he swore by himself, that they would not enter the land. “As the Lord lives,” or “by the life of the Lord,” are ways to render it.

³ tn The word נְאֻם (nÿ’um) is an “oracle.” It is followed by the subjective genitive: “the oracle of the Lord” is equal to saying “the Lord says.”

⁴ tn Heb “in my ears.”

⁵ tn Or “your corpses” (also in vv. 32, 33).

⁶ tn The relative pronoun “which” is joined with the resumptive pronoun “in it” to form a smoother reading “where.”

⁷ tn The Hebrew text uses the anthropomorphic expression “I raised my hand” in taking an oath.

⁸ tn Heb “to cause you to dwell; to cause you to settle.”

⁹ tn Heb “and swore,” i.e., made an oath or vow.

¹⁰ tn Heb “Not a man among these men.”

¹¹ tn Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.

¹² sn A quotation from Ps 95:11.

¹³ tn Grk “although the works,” continuing the previous reference to God. The referent (God) is specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Grk “and in this again.”