Numbers 14:22 - Exposition

Because all those men. The particle כִּי is not to be rendered "because;" it simply introduces the substance of the oath: "As I live … all those men … shall not see." So the Septuagint. And have tempted me now these ten times. It is not in the least necessary to press this expression, borrowed from the vague usage of men, literally. It is the language of indignation, meaning that the full measure of provocation had been received (cf. Genesis 31:7 ; Job 19:3 ). The recorded instances of national "temptations" cannot be made to reach the number ten.