Numeri 16:45

45 "Toglietevi di mezzo a questa raunanza, e io li consumerò in un attimo". Ed essi si prostrarono con la faccia a terra.

Numeri 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 ) .

Numeri 16:45 In-Context

43 Mosè ed Aaronne vennero davanti alla tenda di convegno.

44 E l’Eterno parlò a Mosè, dicendo:

45 "Toglietevi di mezzo a questa raunanza, e io li consumerò in un attimo". Ed essi si prostrarono con la faccia a terra.

46 E Mosè disse ad Aaronne: "Prendi il turibolo, mettivi del fuoco di sull’altare, ponvi su del profumo, e portalo presto in mezzo alla raunanza e fa’ l’espiazione per essi; poiché l’ira dell’Eterno è scoppiata, la piaga è già cominciata".

47 E Aaronne prese il turibolo, come Mosè avea detto; corse in mezzo all’assemblea, ed ecco che la piaga era già cominciata fra il popolo; mise il profumo nel turibolo e fece l’espiazione per il popolo.