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Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aaron;   Cowardice;   Disobedience to God;   Government;   Israel;   Trouble;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mediator;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Congregation, Assembly;   Hexateuch;   Israel;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Caleb;   Government of the Hebrews;   Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Attitudes;   Fall;   Numbers, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Congregation;   Hafṭarah;   Memra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Then Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra'el.
King James Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the assembly of the community of the Israelites.
New Century Version
Then Moses and Aaron bowed facedown in front of all the Israelites gathered there.
New English Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.
Amplified Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.
New American Standard Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the Congregation of the children of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Moses and Aaron bowed down to pray in front of the crowd.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before the entire assembled community of the people of Isra'el.
Darby Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses and Aaron bowed low to the ground in front of all the people gathered there.
English Standard Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Good News Translation
Then Moses and Aaron bowed to the ground in front of all the people.
Christian Standard Bible®
Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.
Literal Translation
And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Moses & Aaron fell vpo their faces before ye whole cogregacion of the multitude of the childre of Israel.
American Standard Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Moyses & Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the congregation of the chyldren of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the Congregation of the children of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.
English Revised Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the entire assembled congregation of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne this was herd, Moises and Aaron felden lowe to erthe, bifor al the multitude of the sones of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses falleth -- Aaron also -- on their faces, before all the assembly of the company of the sons of Israel.
Update Bible Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
World English Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
New King James Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
New Living Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground before the whole community of Israel.
New Life Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in front of all the gathering of the people of Israel.
New Revised Standard
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then did Moses and Aaron fall upon their faces, - before all the convocation of the assembly of the sons of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
THE MESSAGE
Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in front of the entire community, gathered in emergency session.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

Contextual Overview

5 Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people. 6 And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief, 7 Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land. 8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them. 10 But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
Genesis 14:11
And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.
Genesis 14:20
And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.
Genesis 14:23
That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:
Genesis 15:20
And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
Deuteronomy 1:4
After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:
Deuteronomy 3:11
(For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)
Deuteronomy 3:20
Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.
Deuteronomy 3:22
Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.
Joshua 12:4
And the land of Og, king of Bashan, of the rest of the Rephaim, who was living at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

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.


 
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