Nombres 14:37

37 Ces hommes, qui avaient décrié le pays, moururent frappés d'une plaie devant l'Éternel.

Nombres 14:37 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:37

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the
land
They, and they only at this time: died by the plague before the Lord;
either by the pestilence immediately sent upon them by the Lord, or by a flash of lightning from him, or in some other way; however, by the immediate hand of God, and in his presence, being in the tabernacle of the congregation, ( Numbers 14:10 ) ; though the Jews differently relate the manner of their death; some say worms came out of their navels, and up to their jaws, and ate them and their tongues; and others that they came out of their tongues, and entered their navels, which they take to be a just retaliation for sinning with their tongues: and the time of their death they differ about; some say, as the Targum of Jonathan, that it was upon the seventh, and others that it was on the seventeenth of Elul or August they died ^F4.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 7. 2.

Nombres 14:37 In-Context

35 Moi, l'Éternel, je l'ai dit: Je ferai ceci à toute cette méchante assemblée, qui s'est réunie contre moi; ils seront consumés dans ce désert, et ils y mourront.

36 Et les hommes que Moïse avait envoyés pour explorer le pays, et qui étaient revenus et avaient fait murmurer contre lui toute l'assemblée, en décriant le pays;

37 Ces hommes, qui avaient décrié le pays, moururent frappés d'une plaie devant l'Éternel.

38 Mais Josué, fils de Nun, et Caleb, fils de Jephunné, survécurent, d'entre ces hommes qui étaient allés pour explorer le pays.

39 Or Moïse dit ces paroles à tous les enfants d'Israël; et il y eut un grand deuil parmi le peuple.