4 Mose 16:4

Elberfelder Bibel

Als Mose es hörte, fiel er auf sein Angesicht.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Als Mose solches hörte, warf er sich auf sein Angesicht und sprach zu Korah und zu seiner ganzen Rotte also:

Lutherbible (1912)
Da das Mose hörte, fiel er auf sein Angesicht

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 16:45, Numbers 14:5, Numbers 20:6, Joshua 7:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:22 - they fell Ezekiel 9:8 - that I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Moses heard [it],.... What they said, their complaint against him, for setting up Aaron for an high priest, and against Aaron for taking this honour to himself:

he fell upon his face; through shame, as the Targum of Jonathan, blushing at their sin, in opposing the ordinance of God; and through fear of the divine displeasure, and of the wrath of God coming upon them for such wickedness; and in order to pray to God for them to make them sensible of their sin, and give them repentance for it, and pardon of it, and avert his judgments from them such a conduct called aloud for.