Números 16:45

45 Apartaos de en medio de esta congregación, y los consumiré en un momento. Y ellos se echaron sobre sus rostros.

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 Y vinieron Moisés y Aarón delante del tabernáculo del testimonio.

44 Y el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

45 Apartaos de en medio de esta congregación, y los consumiré en un momento. Y ellos se echaron sobre sus rostros.

46 Y dijo Moisés a Aarón: Toma el incensario, y pon en él fuego del altar, y sobre él pon incienso, y ve presto a la congregación, y reconcílialos; porque el furor ha salido de delante de la faz del SEÑOR; la mortandad ha comenzado.

47 Entonces tomó Aarón su incensario , como Moisés dijo, y corrió en medio de la congregación; y he aquí que la mortandad había comenzado en el pueblo; y él puso incienso, y reconcilió el pueblo.