Other translations
American Standard Version
And he gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He gave them their requests and sent fulness to their souls.
Darby Bible Translation
Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.
God's Word
He gave them what they asked for. He [also] gave them a degenerative disease.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.
International Standard Version
God granted them their request, but sent leanness into their lives.
NET Bible
He granted their request, then struck them with a disease.
New American Standard Bible
So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.
New International Version
So he gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.
New Living Translation
So he gave them what they asked for, but he sent a plague along with it.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
The World English Bible
He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
EasyEnglish Bible
He gave them the food that they asked for, but he also sent a bad disease on them.
Young‘s Literal Translation
And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.
New Life Version
So He gave them what they wanted, but He allowed their souls to become weak because of it.
The Voice Bible
Although He granted their request, He also sent a disease that caused them to waste away.
Living Bible
So he gave them their demands but sent them leanness in their souls.
New Catholic Bible
He gave them everything they wanted but struck them with a consuming disease.
Legacy Standard Bible
So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease against their lives.
Jubilee Bible 2000
And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
Christian Standard Bible
He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.
Amplified Bible © 1954
And He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their souls and [thinned their numbers by] disease and death.
New Century Version
So he gave them what they wanted, but he also sent a terrible disease among them.
The Message
But it wasn’t long before they forgot the whole thing, wouldn’t wait to be told what to do. They only cared about pleasing themselves in that desert, provoked God with their insistent demands. He gave them exactly what they asked for— but along with it they got an empty heart. One day in camp some grew jealous of Moses, also of Aaron, holy priest of God. The ground opened and swallowed Dathan, then buried Abiram’s gang. Fire flared against that rebel crew and torched them to a cinder.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
So he gave them what they asked for, but he made them sick so they wasted away.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.
Good News Translation®
so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.
Wycliffe Bible
And he gave to them the asking of them; and he sent fullness into the souls of them. (And so he gave them what they asked for; but he also sent leanness, that is, sickness, into their bodies.)
Contemporary English Version
So you gave them what they wanted, but later you destroyed them with a horrible disease.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
he gave them what they asked but sent a wasting disease among them.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.
Common English Bible © 2011
God gave them what they asked for; he sent food to satisfy their appetites.
Amplified Bible © 2015
So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.
English Standard Version Anglicised
he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
So he gave them what they asked and sent a wasting disease against them.
New American Standard Bible
So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.
The Expanded Bible
So he gave them what they ·wanted [asked for], but he also sent ·a terrible disease [a wasting sickness; emaciation] among them [Num. 11:33–35].
Tree of Life Version
So He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.
Revised Standard Version
he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.
New International Reader's Version
So he gave them what they asked for. But he also sent a sickness that killed many of them.
BRG Bible
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Complete Jewish Bible
He gave them what they wanted but sent meagerness into their souls.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
And He gave them their she’elah (request); but sent leanness into their nefesh.
Names of God Bible
He gave them what they asked for. He also gave them a degenerative disease.
Modern English Version
He gave them their request, but He sent a wasting disease on them.
Easy-to-Read Version
He gave them what they asked for, but he also gave them a terrible disease.
International Children’s Bible
So he gave them what they wanted. But he also sent a terrible disease among them.
Lexham English Bible
So he gave to them their request, but he sent leanness into their souls.
New International Version - UK
So he gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.