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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 12:8

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.

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 153 AARON AND MIRIAM REPROVED Numbers 12:8. _Wherefore were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them: and he departed_. WHEN men...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    פֶּ֣ה אֶל ־פֶּ֞ה אֲדַבֶּר ־בֹּ֗ו וּ מַרְאֶה֙

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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