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Numbers 14:24 Explained in Context
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Verse 24. 24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 14:24 within “Pardon Does Not Cancel the Generation's Loss,” states this claim, challenge, warning, judgment, or intercession in the conflict; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Read It With
- Numbers 14:20–25
Read Numbers 14:24 with 14:20–25. It within “Pardon Does Not Cancel the Generation's Loss,” states this claim, challenge, warning, judgment, or intercession in the conflict; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The LORD grants pardon yet swears that those who repeatedly tested and refused will not see the land; Caleb is excepted for a different spirit, and Israel is told to turn back from the Amalekites and Canaanites.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 14:20–25 — Pardon Does Not Cancel the Generation's LossSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 14:20–25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 14:20–25
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