Numbers 32:23
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Build ye cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep,.... For their safety and security, as they proposed to do:
and do that which proceedeth out of your mouth; all that they had promised.
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Be sure your sin will find you out - literally, “know ye your sin that it will find you out.” Moses implies that their sin would eventually bring its own punishment along with it.
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
be sure your sin will find you out lit. -know your sin, that it will find you." The rendering of the E.V., which has passed, as a proverbial expression, into our current language, is based upon an…
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