And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto Jehovah, and the fire abated.
WEB
And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
YLT
And the people cry unto Moses, and Moses prayeth unto Jehovah, and the fire is quenched;
DBT
And the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Jehovah — and the fire abated.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC