Numeri 16:30

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

sin autem novam rem fecerit Dominus, ut aperiens terra os suum deglutiat eos et omnia quæ ad illos pertinent, descenderintque viventes in infernum, scietis quod blasphemaverint Dominum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
In hac die expiatio erit vestri, atque mundatio ab omnibus peccatis vestris : coram Domino mundabimini.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Sin autem novam rem fecerit Dominus, ut aperiens terra os suum deglutiat eos et omnia, quae ad illos pertinent, descenderintque viventes in infernum, scietis quod blasphemaverint Dominum".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

make a new thing: Heb. create a creature; weim beriah yivra Yehowah, "And if Jehovah should create a creation," i.e., do such a thing as was never done before. Job 31:3, Isaiah 28:21, Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 45:7, Isaiah 45:12, Jeremiah 31:22

and they: Numbers 16:33, Psalms 55:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:6 - the Lord Numbers 16:32 - the earth Job 10:16 - marvellous Psalms 58:9 - both living Psalms 63:9 - go Psalms 124:3 - swallowed Proverbs 1:12 - whole Isaiah 5:14 - opened Ezekiel 26:20 - I shall bring Ezekiel 32:21 - gone Luke 19:27 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if the Lord make a new thing,.... Or "create a creation", or "creature" s, what never was before, or put those persons to a death that none ever in the world died of yet; what that is he means is next expressed:

and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] unto them; their persons, their wives, children and substance:

and they go down quick into the pit; alive into the grave the opening earth makes for them; this is the new thing created; though the Rabbins say t, the mouth of the earth, or the opening of the earth, was created from the days of the creation, that is, it was determined or decreed so early that it should be:

then ye shall understated that these men have provoked the Lord; by rising up against Moses and Aaron, and so against the Lord; by falsely accusing his servants, and endeavouring to set the people against them, and so alter the constitution of things in church and state.

s בריאה יברא "creationem, creaverit", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Fagius; "creaturam", Vatablus, Drusius. t Pirke Abot, c. 5. sect. 6. Pirke Eliezer, c. 19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 16:30. If the Lord make a new thing — ואם בריאה יברא יהוה veim beriah yibra Yehovah, and if Jehovah should create a creation, i. e., do such a thing as was never done before.

And they go down quick into the pit — שאלה sheolah, a proof, among many others, that שאל sheol, signifies here a chasm or pit of the earth, and not the place called hell; for it would be absurd to suppose that their houses had gone to hell; and it would be wicked to imagine that their little innocent children had gone thither, though God was pleased to destroy their lives with those of their iniquitous fathers.