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Numbers 14:12-14
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Numbers 14:12-14
New English Translation
12 I will strike them with the pestilence,[a] and I will disinherit them—I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”
13 Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear[b] it—for you brought up this people by your power from among them— 14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants[c] of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face,[d] that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.
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- Numbers 14:12 tc The Greek version has “death.”
- Numbers 14:13 tn The construction is unusual in that we have here a perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive with no verb before it to establish the time sequence. The context requires that this be taken as a vav (ו) consecutive. It actually forms the protasis for the next verse, and would best be rendered “when…then they will say.”
- Numbers 14:14 tn The singular participle is to be taken here as a collective, representing all the inhabitants of the land.
- Numbers 14:14 tn “Face-to-face” is literally “eye to eye.” It only occurs elsewhere in Isa 52:8. This expresses the closest communication possible.
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