Numeri 12:6

6 Und er sprach: Höret denn meine Worte! Wenn ein Prophet unter euch ist, dem will ich, Jehova, in einem Gesicht mich kundtun, in einem Traume will ich mit ihm reden.

Numeri 12:6 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 12:6

And he said, hear now my words
The Targum of Jonathan reads, "I beseech you"; and Jarchi says, this particle always so signifies; but it is not so agreeable to the language of the divine Being:

if there be a prophet among you;
not as making a doubt of it, but rather allowing that there was, and that there were others besides Moses, as even they themselves, Aaron and Miriam, and the seventy elders, and perhaps others; or at least there had been, and would be again, as there were in later times:

[I] the Lord will make myself known to him;
that is, declare my mind and will concerning things present, or things to come:

in a vision;
when awake, either by day or by night, representing objects to the bodily sight; as the almond tree rod, and the boiling pot, to Jeremiah, ( Jeremiah 1:11-13 ) ; the visions of the chariots, ( Ezekiel 23:24 ) ( Ezekiel 26:7 Ezekiel 26:10 ) , and dry bones, ( Ezekiel 37:1-14 ) , to Ezekiel, and such as were shown to Amos, ( Amos 7:1-9:15 ) : or to the mind by night, as if really discerned by the senses; as the visions of the man riding on a red horse, ( Zechariah 1:8 ) , and of the four horns, ( Zechariah 1:18 ) , and four carpenters, ( Zechariah 1:20 ) , with several others shown to Zechariah:

[and] will speak unto him in a dream;
as he had done to Jacob, ( Genesis 31:11 ) , and as he did afterwards to Daniel, ( Daniel 7:1 ) , and many others.

Numeri 12:6 In-Context

4 Da sprach Jehova plötzlich zu Mose und zu Aaron und zu Mirjam: Gehet hinaus, ihr drei, zum Zelte der Zusammenkunft! Und sie gingen hinaus, sie drei.

5 Und Jehova kam in der Wolkensäule hernieder und stand an dem Eingang des Zeltes; und er rief Aaron und Mirjam, und die beiden traten hinaus.

6 Und er sprach: Höret denn meine Worte! Wenn ein Prophet unter euch ist, dem will ich, Jehova, in einem Gesicht mich kundtun, in einem Traume will ich mit ihm reden.

7 Nicht also mein Knecht Mose. Er ist treu in meinem ganzen Hause;

8 mit ihm rede ich von Mund zu Mund, und deutlich und nicht in Rätseln, und das Bild Jehovas schaut er. Und warum habt ihr euch nicht gefürchtet, wider meinen Knecht, wider Mose, zu reden?