Numeri 7:89

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

En wanneer Mozes de tent der samenkomst binnenging, om met hem te spreken, dan hoorde hij de stem tot hem spreken van boven het deksel dat op de ark der Geboden lag, van tussen de twee cherubs. Zo sprak hij tot hem.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En als Mozes in de tent der samenkomst ging om met God te spreken, dan hoorde hij de stem, die tot hem sprak van het verzoendeksel, dat op de ark der getuigenis is; tussen de twee cherubim aldaar werd met hem gesproken.

Staten Vertaling
En als Mozes in de tent der samenkomst ging, om met Hem te spreken, zo hoorde hij een stem tot hem sprekende, van boven het verzoendeksel, hetwelk is op de ark der getuigenis, van tussen de twee cherubim. Alzo sprak Hij tot hem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to speak: Numbers 12:8, Exodus 33:9-11

him: that is, God

he heard: Numbers 1:1, Exodus 25:22, Leviticus 1:1, Hebrews 4:16

two cherubims: Exodus 25:18-21, 1 Samuel 4:4, 1 Kings 6:23, Psalms 80:1, 1 Peter 1:12

Reciprocal: Numbers 8:1 - General Deuteronomy 12:5 - habitation 1 Kings 6:5 - oracle 1 Chronicles 13:6 - that dwelleth Romans 9:4 - and the glory Hebrews 9:5 - over

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation, to speak with him,.... With God, to consult him on some affair or another, or to learn whether he had anything else to communicate to him, to be delivered to the children of Israel; or whether he had any directions and instructions to give him about the presents and gifts of the princes, since this seems to be immediately after their offerings:

then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him; the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it, the voice of the Spirit; but rather the voice of the Shechinah, or Word of God, the eternal "Logos", is what was heard; who in the fulness of time was to be made flesh, and dwell among men, and be heard, and seen, and handled by them; for as for the voice of the Father, the was not heard at any time, John 5:37;

from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; upon the ark in which the law was, called the testimony, was the mercy seat; over that were placed two cherubim shadowing it, and between these was the seat of the divine Majesty, which he had now taken, and from hence the voice of him speaking, was heard; which, as it follows upon the presents and offerings of the princes, may be interpreted, of the divine approbation and acceptance of them, since it was promised by the Lord to Moses, that upon their building a tabernacle for him he would dwell in it; and upon the making a mercy seat with the cherubim over the ark, he would there meet with Moses, and commune with him; all which being done to his mind he fulfils his promise: though it seems that at this time Moses did not go into the most holy place, only into the tabernacle of the congregation, the outward sanctuary, the court of the tabernacle; and there he heard the voice, as Jarchi observes, coming out of the most holy place, and from the mercy seat there, which was so loud, clear, and distinct, as to be well heard and understood by him; he supposes the voice went out from heaven to between the two cherubim, and from thence to the tabernacle of the congregation: and he spake unto him; what he spoke is not said, unless it is what follows in the next chapter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With him - i. e. as marginal, “with God,” not (as some) with himself.

He heard the voice of one speaking - Rather, he heard the voice speaking, or conversing. The effect was as though Moses was audibly addressed by another person: how this effect was produced we are not told.

Thus was the promise of Exodus 25:20-22 fulfilled; and that as an immediate response on the part of God to the cheerful readiness with which the tribes had made their offerings, and supplied everything needful for the Holy place and its service. All being now complete as God had appointed, and the camp purified from defilements, God meets Moses the mediator of the people, not as before on the peak of Sinai far away, but in the midst of them, in the dwelling-place which He henceforth vouchsafed to tenant.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 7:89. To speak with him — To confer with God, and to receive farther discoveries of his will.

He heard the voice of one speaking unto him — Though Moses saw no similitude, but only heard a voice, yet he had the fullest proof of the presence as well as of the being of the Almighty. In this way God chose to manifest himself during that dispensation, till the fulness of the time came, in which the WORD was made flesh, and DWELT AMONG US. No man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

The mercy-seat — Exodus 25:17; Exodus 25:17. As God gave oracular answers from this place, and spoke to Moses as it were face to face, hence the place was called the ORACLE, דביר debir, or speaking place, from דבר dabar, he spoke, 1 Kings 6:23. And as this mercy-seat represented our blessed Redeemer, so the apostle says that God, who had at sundry times, and in divers manners, SPOKEN in time past to the fathers by the prophets, hath, in these last days, SPOKEN unto us by his Son. Hebrews 1:1-2. Hence the incarnated Christ is the true דביר debir or oracle, in and by whom God speaks unto man.

On this occasion we find there were offered
12 silver chargers each weighing ...	130 shekels.
12 silver bowls, each .....	70 shekels.
Total amount of silver vessels ...	2,400 shekels.
12 golden spoons, each weighing ...	10 shekels.
Total amount of golden vessels ...	120 shekels.

	oz.	dwts.	gr.
A silver charger at 130 shekels, reduced to troy weight, makes ...	75	9	16 8/31
A silver bowl, at 70 shekels, amounts to ...	40	12	21 21/31
Total weight of the 12 chargers ...	905	16	3 3/31
Total weight of the 12 bowls ...	487	14	20 4/31
Total .....	1,393	10	23 7/31
Which, at 5s. per oz., is equal to ...	£348	7s.	9d.
	oz.	dwts.	gr.
The 12 golden spoons, allowing each to be ...	5	16	3 3/31
amount to .....	69	13	13 5/31
Which, at £4 per ounce, is equal to	£278	14s.	2 1/2 d.
And added to the amount of the silver ...	£348	7s.	9d.
make a total of ...	£627	1s.	11d.

Besides the above there were
Bullocks ...	12
Rams ...	12
Lambs ...	12
Goats ...	24
Rams ...	60
He-goats ...	60
Lambs ...	60
Total .....	240 clean beasts for sacrifice.

By which we may at once see that though the place in which they now sojourned was a wilderness, as to cities, villages, and regular inhabitants, yet there was plenty of pasturage, else the Israelites could not have furnished these cattle, with all the sacrifices necessary for different occasions, and especially for the passover, which was celebrated during their sojourning in the desert, and which itself must have required an immense number of lambs, (see Numbers 9:4-5), when each family of the 600,000 males was obliged to provide one for itself.