Numbers 17:13
New International Version
Anyone who even comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to die?”

New Living Translation
Everyone who even comes close to the Tabernacle of the LORD dies. Are we all doomed to die?”

English Standard Version
Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, shall die. Are we all to perish?”

Berean Standard Bible
Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”

King James Bible
Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

New King James Version
Whoever even comes near the tabernacle of the LORD must die. Shall we all utterly die?”

New American Standard Bible
Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, must die. Are we to perish completely?”

NASB 1995
“Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, must die. Are we to perish completely?”

NASB 1977
“Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, must die. Are we to perish completely?”

Legacy Standard Bible
Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Yahweh, must die. Are we to breathe our utter last?”

Amplified Bible
Everyone who approaches, who approaches the tabernacle of the LORD, must die. Are we to perish completely?”

Christian Standard Bible
Anyone who comes near the LORD’s tabernacle will die. Will we all perish? ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Anyone who comes near the LORD’s tabernacle will die. Will we all perish?”

American Standard Version
Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of Jehovah, dieth: shall we perish all of us?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And everyone who comes near to the Tabernacle of LORD JEHOVAH dies, and behold, we also have come out to die.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Every one that touches the tabernacle of the Lord, dies: shall we die utterly?

Contemporary English Version
and doomed if we even go near the sacred tent!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whosoever approacheth to the tabernacle of the Lord, he dieth. Are we all to a man to be utterly destroyed?

English Revised Version
Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of the LORD, dieth: shall we perish all of us?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Anyone who comes near the LORD's tent will die! Are we all going to die?"

Good News Translation
If anyone who even comes near the Tent must die, then we are all as good as dead!"

International Standard Version
Anyone who comes near or approaches the LORD's tent is to die. Are all of us going to die?"

JPS Tanakh 1917
Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of the LORD, is to die; shall we wholly perish?'

Literal Standard Version
Any who is at all drawing near to the Dwelling Place of YHWH dies; have we not been consumed—to expire?”

Majority Standard Bible
Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”

New American Bible
Anyone who approaches the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Will there be no end to our perishing?”

NET Bible
Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?"

New Revised Standard Version
Everyone who approaches the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all to perish?”

New Heart English Bible
Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, dies. Will we all perish?"

Webster's Bible Translation
Whoever approacheth the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

World English Bible
Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”

Young's Literal Translation
any who is at all drawing near unto the tabernacle of Jehovah dieth; have we not been consumed -- to expire?'

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Context
Aaron's Staff Buds
12Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost! 13Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”

Cross References
Numbers 1:51
Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

Numbers 18:1
So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house must bear the iniquity involving the sanctuary. And you and your sons alone must bear the iniquity involving your priesthood.


Treasury of Scripture

Whoever comes any thing near to the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

Whosoever

Numbers 1:51-53
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death…

Numbers 18:4-7
And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you…

any thing

Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

1 Samuel 6:19-21
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter…

2 Samuel 6:6-12
And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it

consumed

Numbers 16:26
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

Numbers 32:13
And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

Deuteronomy 2:16
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

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Verse 13. - Shall we be consumed with dying? It was a natural question, considering all that had happened; and indeed it could only be answered in the affirmative, for their sentence was, "In this wilderness they shall be consumed" (chapter 14:35). But it was not in human nature that they should calmly accept their fate.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Anyone
כֹּ֣ל (kōl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

who comes near
הַקָּרֵ֧ב ׀ (haq·qā·rêḇ)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7131: Approaching

the tabernacle
מִשְׁכַּ֥ן (miš·kan)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle

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

will die.
יָמ֑וּת (yā·mūṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

Are we all
תַּ֖מְנוּ (tam·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 8552: To be complete or finished

going to perish?”
לִגְוֺֽעַ׃ (liḡ·wō·a‘)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1478: To breathe out, expire


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