Números 16:45

45 «¡Aléjate de toda esta gente para que la destruya inmediatamente!». Pero Moisés y Aarón cayeron rostro en tierra.

Números 16:45 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:45

Get you up from among this congregation
That is, withdraw from them, and be separate, that they might not be involved in the same destruction with them, as well as that they might have no concern for them, or plead with the Lord in prayer on their account, but let him alone to destroy them, as follows:

that I may consume them in a moment;
as he was able to do, and had proposed to do it before, but they entreated him that he would not, ( Numbers 16:21 Numbers 16:22 ) ; as they again do:

and they fell upon their faces;
in prayer, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; and so Aben Ezra observes, it was to pray to deprecate the wrath of God, and to implore his pardoning mercy for this sinful people; which shows what an excellent temper and disposition these men were of, to pray for them that had so despitefully used them as to charge them with murder, and were about to commit it on them; see ( Matthew 5:44 ) ( Luke 23:34 ) .

Números 16:45 In-Context

43 Entonces Moisés y Aarón fueron al frente del tabernáculo,

44 y el Señor
le dijo a Moisés:

45 «¡Aléjate de toda esta gente para que la destruya inmediatamente!». Pero Moisés y Aarón cayeron rostro en tierra.

46 Y Moisés le dijo a Aarón: «Rápido, toma un recipiente para quemar incienso y ponle carbones encendidos del altar. Agrégale incienso y llévalo entre el pueblo para purificarlos y hacerlos justos ante el Señor
.
El enojo del Señor
ya arde contra ellos y la plaga ha comenzado».

47 Entonces Aarón hizo como Moisés le dijo y corrió entre el pueblo. La plaga ya había comenzado a matar a la gente, pero Aarón quemó el incienso y purificó
al pueblo.