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Numbers 16:45

in Numbers 16

“Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron fell facedown.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

KJV

Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

This verse in Numbers 16

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Get you up from among this congregation,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

They fell upon their faces - In intercession for the people; compare Num 16:22; Num 14:5.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הֵרֹ֗מּוּget away

    heromuH7426 →

  • מִתּוֹךְ֙from among

    mitokhH8432 →418 times

  • הָעֵדָ֣הthe congregation

    haedahH5712 →149 times

  • הַזֹּ֔את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • וַאֲכַלֶּ֥הso I may make an end of

    vaakhalehH3615 →208 times

  • אֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • כְּרָ֑גַעlike a moment

    keraga'H7281 →

  • וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּand they fell

    vaiyipeluH5307 →435 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃faces their

    peneihemH6440 →2123 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 26:39

    Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”

    it leads to

    • John 6:38

      For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

    • Philippians 2:8

      And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.

    • Luke 22:41–42

      And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,

    • Matthew 26:42

      A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”

    • John 5:30

      I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 21:16

    When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 14:5

      Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 21:27

      When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.

    • Jonah 3:6–8

      When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).