Numeri 14:5

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Toen vielen Mozes en Aaron op hun aangezicht voor de gehele vergadering van de gemeente der Israelieten,

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Maar Mozes en Aron vielen op hun aangezicht voor de gehele vergadering van de gemeente der kinderen Israls.

Staten Vertaling
Toen vielen Mozes en Aaron op hun aangezichten, voor het aangezicht van de ganse gemeente der vergadering van de kinderen Israels.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 16:4, Numbers 16:22, Numbers 16:45, Genesis 17:3, Leviticus 9:24, Joshua 5:14, Joshua 7:10, 1 Kings 18:39, 1 Chronicles 21:16, Ezekiel 9:8, Daniel 10:9, Matthew 26:39, Revelation 4:10, Revelation 5:14, Revelation 7:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:17 - fell Numbers 20:6 - they fell 2 Chronicles 7:3 - they bowed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces,.... Through shame and confusion of face for them, at hearing so shocking a proposal made, and such wretched ingratitude expressed; they blushed at it, and were in the utmost distress on account of it, and therefore threw themselves into this posture; or it may be this was done either to beg of them that they would lay aside all thoughts of this kind, or to supplicate the divine Majesty that he would convince them of their sin and folly, and give them repentance for it and forgiveness of it; and this they did

before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel; to affect them the more with a sense of their sin and danger.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Already Caleb had endeavored to still the people before Moses Numbers 13:30; already Moses himself (Deuteronomy 1:29 ff) had endeavored to recall the people to obedience. After the failure of these efforts Moses and Aaron cast themselves down in solemn prayer before God (compare Numbers 16:22); and the appearance of the glory of the Lord in the “tabernacle of the congregation” Numbers 14:10 was the immediate answer.