Numbers 12:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

mouth to mouth. Compare Genesis 45:12; 2 John 1:12; 3 John 1:14. See also Exodus 33:11.Deuteronomy 34:10. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

apparently. plainly.

not, &c.. Figure of speech Pleonasm. App-6.

similitude: i.e. likeness or image. This must be understood in harmony with Exodus 33:20; Exodus 33:23. Compare Deuteronomy 4:12; Deuteronomy 4:15. Joh 1:18. 1 Timothy 6:16. Compare Colossians 1:15.

against, &c. Hebrew "against my servant, against Moses. "Compare idiom in Genesis 21:10 and note.

Numbers 12:8

8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?