Numeri 16:4

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Quod cum audisset Moyses, cecidit pronus in faciem:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Tunica linea vestietur, feminalibus lineis verenda celabit : accingetur zona linea, cidarim lineam imponet capiti : hæc enim vestimenta sunt sancta : quibus cunctis, cum lotus fuerit, induetur.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quod cum audisset Moyses, cecidit pronus in faciem

Bible Verse Review
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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.