Numbers 11:28

New American Standard Bible

Then Joshua the son of Nun, the personal servant of Moses from his youth, responded and said, "My lord Moses, restrain them!"

Parallel Translations

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Ioshua the sonne of Nun the seruant of Moses one of his yong men answered & said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua the son of Nun, who had ministered to Moses from his youth, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moshe, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moshe, forbid them.

Easy-to-Read Version
Joshua son of Nun said to Moses, "Moses, sir, you must stop them!" (Joshua had been Moses' helper since Joshua was a boy.)

English Standard Version
And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, "My lord Moses, stop them."

American Standard Version
And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

Bible in Basic English
Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant from the time when he was a child, said, My lord Moses, let them be stopped.

Contemporary English Version
Joshua was there helping Moses, as he had done since he was young. And he said to Moses, "Sir, you must stop them!"

Complete Jewish Bible
Y'hoshua, the son of Nun, who from his youth up had been Moshe's assistant, answered, "My lord, Moshe, stop them!"

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses from his youth up, answered and said: 'My lord Moses, shut them in.'

King James Version (1611)
And Ioshua the sonne of Nun the seruant of Moses, one of his yong men, answered and said, My lord Moses, Forbid them.

Amplified Bible
Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, "My lord Moses, stop them!"

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua the son of Naue, who attended on Moses, the chosen one, said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

English Revised Version
And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

Berean Standard Bible
Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, "Moses, my lord, stop them!"

Lexham English Bible
And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from time of his youth, answered, "Moses, my lord, stop them."

Literal Translation
And Joshua the son of Nun, minister to Moses, of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, stop them.

New Century Version
Joshua son of Nun said, "Moses, my master, stop them!" (Ever since he was a young boy, Joshua had been Moses' assistant.)

New English Translation
Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his choice young men, said, "My lord Moses, stop them!"

New King James Version
So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, "Moses my lord, forbid them!"

New Living Translation
Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' assistant since his youth, protested, "Moses, my master, make them stop!"

New Life Bible
Then Joshua the son of Nun, the helper of Moses since he was young, said, "Moses, my lord, do not let them."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded Joshua son of Nun the attendant of Moses from his youth, and said, - My lord Moses forbid them!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and chosen out of many, said: My lord Moses forbid them.

Revised Standard Version
And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, "My lord Moses, forbid them."

Good News Translation
Then Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' helper since he was a young man, spoke up and said to Moses, "Stop them, sir!"

King James Version
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

Darby Translation
And Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Anoon Josue, the sone of Nun, the `mynystre of Moises, and chosun of manye, seide, My lord Moises, forbede thou hem.

Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua son of Nun, minister of Moses, [one] of his young men, answereth and saith, `My lord Moses, restrain them.'

World English Bible
Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them.

Update Bible Version
And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord, Moses, forbid them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosuah the sonne of Nun the seruaunt of Moyses, one of his young men aunswered, and sayde: My lorde Moyses, forbyd them.

Christian Standard Bible®
Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth, responded, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then answered Iosua ye sonne of Nun Moses seruaunte (whom he had chosen) and sayde: My lorde Moses, for bydde them.

THE MESSAGE
Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' right-hand man since his youth, said, "Moses, master! Stop them!"

New Revised Standard
And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, "My lord Moses, stop them!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, "Moses, my lord, restrain them."

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, "Moses, my lord, restrain them."

Contextual Overview

²⁴ So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. He also gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and positioned them around the tent. ²⁵ Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took away some of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. Yet they did not do it again. ²⁶ But two men had remained in the camp; the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other, Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them (and they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷ So a young man ran and informed Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp." ²⁸ Then Joshua the son of Nun, the personal servant of Moses from his youth, responded and said, "My lord Moses, restrain them!"²⁹ But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? If only all the LORD'S people were prophets, that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!" ³⁰ Then Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua: Exodus 17:9

My Lord: Mark 9:38, Mark 9:39, Luke 9:49, Luke 9:50, John 3:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:13 - his minister Numbers 13:8 - Oshea Numbers 27:18 - Take thee Numbers 27:20 - put some Numbers 32:27 - as my lord Joshua 1:1 - Moses' minister 1 Chronicles 7:27 - Jehoshuah 1 Corinthians 4:6 - be puffed 1 Corinthians 14:5 - would

Cross-References

Genesis 11:2
And it came about, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let's make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth."

Genesis 11:31
Now Terah took his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and settled there.

Genesis 15:7
And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it."

Nehemiah 9:7
"You are the LORD God, Who chose Abram And brought him out from Ur of the Chaldees, And gave him the name Abraham.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses,.... That waited upon him, and ministered to him, and executed his orders, especially in civil things, and was to be his successor:

[one] of his young men; not that Joshua was a young man in age, for he must be now between fifty and sixty years of age,

:-; nor does the word necessarily suppose that those men were young among whom Joshua was; but choice excellent persons, the principal servants of Moses, at the head of whom Joshua was being his prime minister: the Targum of Onkelos and the Syriac version render it, "from his youth", joining it with the word servant, as if he was the servant of Moses from his youth, or ever since he was a young man; but Moses had not been out of Midian but about two years, where he had kept his father's sheep; however, he

answered and said, my lord Moses, forbid them; prophesying, restrain them from it, suffer them not to go on in it; he would have him exert his authority as the chief magistrate, which he thought was affected by their prophesying without his knowledge and consent; and because a word from the root here used signifies a prison, some here interpret it,

"put them in prison,''

which is a sense Jarchi mentions; but it can hardly be thought that Joshua meant that such rigorous measures should be taken, only that they should be rebuked for what they had done, and be charged for the future to be silent.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah.

Numbers 11:4

The mixt multitude - The word in the original resembles our “riff-raff,” and denotes a mob of people scraped together. It refers here to the multitude of strangers (see Exodus 12:38) who had followed the Israelites from Egypt.

Numbers 11:5

The natural dainties of Egypt are set forth in this passage with the fullness and relish which bespeak personal experience.

Numbers 11:6-7

There is nothing at all ... - literally, “Nought at all have we except that our eyes are unto this manna;” i. e. “Nought else have we to expect beside this manna.” On the manna see Exodus 16:15 note; on bdellium see Genesis 2:12 note.

Numbers 11:10

The weeping was general; every family wept (compare Zechariah 12:12), and in a manner public and unconcealed.

Numbers 11:11-15

The complaint and remonstrance of Moses may be compared with that in 1 Kings 19:4 ff; Jonah 4:1-3, and contrasted with the language of Abraham (Genesis 18:23 ff) The meekness of Moses (compare Numbers 12:3) sank under vexation into despair. His language shows us how imperfect and prone to degeneracy are the best saints on earth.

Numbers 11:16

Seventy men of the elders of Israel - Seventy elders had also gone up with Moses to the Lord in the mount Exodus 24:1, Exodus 24:9. Seventy is accordingly the number of colleagues assigned to Moses to share his burden with him. To it, the Jews trace the origin of the Sanhedrim. Subsequent notices Numbers 16:25; Joshua 7:6; Joshua 8:10, Joshua 8:33; Joshua 9:11; Joshua 23:2; Joshua 24:1, Joshua 24:31 so connect the elders with the government of Israel as to point to the fact that the appointment now made was not a merely temporary one, though it would seem to have soon fallen into desuetude. We find no traces of it in the days of the Judges and the Kings.

Elders of the people, and officers over them - In English idiom, “elders and officers of the people.” Both elders and officers appear in Egypt (Exodus 3:16; Exodus 5:6 ff): the former had headed the nation in its efforts after freedom; the latter were the subordinate, though unwilling, agents of Egyptian tyranny. The two classes no doubt were working together; and from those who belonged to either, perhaps from those who were both eiders and officers, the council of Seventy was to be selected.

Numbers 11:17

I will take of the spirit which is upon thee - Render rather separate from the spirit, etc.; i. e. they shall have their portion in the same divine gift which thou hast.

Numbers 11:25

They prophesied - i. e. under the extraordinary impulse of the Holy Spirit they uttered forth the praises of God, or declared His will. Compare the marginal references.

And did not cease - Rather, and added not, i. e. they prophesied at this time only and not afterward. The sign was granted on the occasion of their appointment to accredit them in their office; it was not continued, because their proper function was to be that of governing not prophesying.

Numbers 11:26

Of them that were written - i. e. enrolled among the Seventy. The expression points to a regular appointment duly recorded and permanent.

Numbers 11:29

Enviest thou for my sake? - (Compare Mark 9:38 ff) The other members of the Seventy had been with Moses (compare Numbers 6:16, Numbers 6:24-25) when the gift of prophecy was bestowed on them. They received “of the spirit that was upon him,” and exercised their office visibly through and for him. Eldad and Medad prophesying in the camp seemed to Joshua to be acting independently, and so establishing a separate center of authority.

Numbers 11:31

The southeast wind, which blew from the neighboring Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea, brought the quails Exodus 16:13.

Two cubits high - Better, “two cubits above the face of the ground:” i. e. the quails, wearied with their long flight, flew about breast high, and were easily secured by the people, who spread them all abroad for themselves Numbers 11:32, in order to salt and dry them. The quail habitually flies with the wind, and low.

Numbers 11:32

Ten homers - About 55 bushels. Compare Leviticus 27:16.

Numbers 11:33

Ere it was chewed - Better, ere it was consumed. See Numbers 11:19-20. The surfeit in which the people indulged, as described in Numbers 11:32, disposed them to sickness. God’s wrath, visiting the gluttonous through their gluttony, aggravated natural consequences into a supernatural visitation.

Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:35

(Kibroth-hattaavah has been identified by Palmer with the extensive remains, graves, etc., at Erweis El Ebeirig, and Hazeroth “enclosures” with Ain Hadherah.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 11:28. My lord Moses, forbid them. —

How often have I blindly done

What zealous Joshua did,

Impatient to the rulers run,

And cried, "My lords, forbid!

Silence the schismatics, constrain

Their thoughts with ours t' agree,

And sacrifice the souls of men

To idol UNITY!"