Numbers - 16:29



29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 16:29.

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If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.
if these men die as all men die, and are visited with the visitation of all men, Jehovah has not sent me;
if according to the death of all men these die, or the charge of all men is charged upon them, Jehovah hath not sent me;
If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD has not sent me.
If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me.
If these men pass away by the common death of men, or if they will be visited by a scourge, of a kind by which others are often visited, then the Lord did not send me.
Si ut moriuntur omnes homines, morientur isti, et visitatione omnium hominum visitabitur super eos, non misit me Jehova:

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

If these men die the common death of all men,.... Or "as every man dies" (r), or the generality of men, who for the most part die of one disease or another, as a fever, and the like, or through old age:
or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; with such visitations as men in all ages for their sins are visited with, meaning public calamities, such as pestilence, famine, and sword:
then the Lord hath not sent me; it may be concluded that I had no mission nor commission from the Lord to do what I have done, but may be reckoned a deceiver and an impostor; and I am content to be accounted so, should either of the above things be the case of these men.
(r) "ut moriuntur omnes homines", Pagninus; "reliqui homines", Junius & Tremellius; "alii homines", Piscator.

The death of all men - By a natural death. The visitation of all men - By plague, or sword, or some usual judgment. The Lord hath not sent me - I am content that you take me for an imposter, falsely pretending to be sent of God.

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