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Good News Translation

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron bowed to the ground in front of all the people.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aaron;   Cowardice;   Disobedience to God;   Government;   Israel;   Trouble;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mediator;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Congregation, Assembly;   Hexateuch;   Israel;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Caleb;   Government of the Hebrews;   Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Attitudes;   Fall;   Numbers, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Congregation;   Hafṭarah;   Memra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Then Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra'el.
King James Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the assembly of the community of the Israelites.
New Century Version
Then Moses and Aaron bowed facedown in front of all the Israelites gathered there.
New English Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.
Amplified Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.
New American Standard Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the Congregation of the children of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Moses and Aaron bowed down to pray in front of the crowd.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before the entire assembled community of the people of Isra'el.
Darby Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses and Aaron bowed low to the ground in front of all the people gathered there.
English Standard Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Christian Standard Bible®
Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.
Literal Translation
And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Moses & Aaron fell vpo their faces before ye whole cogregacion of the multitude of the childre of Israel.
American Standard Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Moyses & Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the congregation of the chyldren of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the Congregation of the children of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.
English Revised Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the entire assembled congregation of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne this was herd, Moises and Aaron felden lowe to erthe, bifor al the multitude of the sones of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses falleth -- Aaron also -- on their faces, before all the assembly of the company of the sons of Israel.
Update Bible Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
World English Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
New King James Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
New Living Translation
Then Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground before the whole community of Israel.
New Life Bible
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in front of all the gathering of the people of Israel.
New Revised Standard
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then did Moses and Aaron fall upon their faces, - before all the convocation of the assembly of the sons of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
THE MESSAGE
Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in front of the entire community, gathered in emergency session.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

Contextual Overview

5 Then Moses and Aaron bowed to the ground in front of all the people. 6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of the spies, tore their clothes in sorrow 7 and said to the people, "The land we explored is an excellent land. 8 If the Lord is pleased with us, he will take us there and give us that rich and fertile land. 9 Do not rebel against the Lord and don't be afraid of the people who live there. We will conquer them easily. The Lord is with us and has defeated the gods who protected them; so don't be afraid." 10 The whole community was threatening to stone them to death, but suddenly the people saw the dazzling light of the Lord 's presence appear over the Tent.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 16:4, Numbers 16:22, Numbers 16:45, Genesis 17:3, Leviticus 9:24, Joshua 5:14, Joshua 7:10, 1 Kings 18:39, 1 Chronicles 21:16, Ezekiel 9:8, Daniel 10:9, Matthew 26:39, Revelation 4:10, Revelation 5:14, Revelation 7:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:17 - fell Numbers 20:6 - they fell 2 Chronicles 7:3 - they bowed

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
The valley was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah tried to run away from the battle, they fell into the pits; but the other three kings escaped to the mountains.
Genesis 14:11
The four kings took everything in Sodom and Gomorrah, including the food, and went away.
Genesis 14:20
May the Most High God, who gave you victory over your enemies, be praised!" And Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the loot he had recovered.
Genesis 14:23
that I will not keep anything of yours, not even a thread or a sandal strap. Then you can never say, ‘I am the one who made Abram rich.'
Genesis 15:20
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Deuteronomy 1:4
This was after the Lord had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in the town of Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who ruled in the towns of Ashtaroth and Edrei.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(King Og was the last of the Rephaim. His coffin, made of stone, was six feet wide and almost fourteen feet long, according to standard measurements. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)
Deuteronomy 3:20
Help the other Israelites until they occupy the land that the Lord is giving them west of the Jordan and until the Lord lets them live there in peace, as he has already done here for you. After that, you may return to this land that I have assigned to you.'
Deuteronomy 3:22
Don't be afraid of them, for the Lord your God will fight for you.'
Joshua 12:4
They also defeated King Og of Bashan, who was one of the last of the Rephaim; he ruled at Ashtaroth and Edrei.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces,.... Through shame and confusion of face for them, at hearing so shocking a proposal made, and such wretched ingratitude expressed; they blushed at it, and were in the utmost distress on account of it, and therefore threw themselves into this posture; or it may be this was done either to beg of them that they would lay aside all thoughts of this kind, or to supplicate the divine Majesty that he would convince them of their sin and folly, and give them repentance for it and forgiveness of it; and this they did

before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel; to affect them the more with a sense of their sin and danger.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Already Caleb had endeavored to still the people before Moses Numbers 13:30; already Moses himself (Deuteronomy 1:29 ff) had endeavored to recall the people to obedience. After the failure of these efforts Moses and Aaron cast themselves down in solemn prayer before God (compare Numbers 16:22); and the appearance of the glory of the Lord in the “tabernacle of the congregation” Numbers 14:10 was the immediate answer.


 
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