Numbers 12:7
My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
KJV
At non talis servus meus Moyses, qui in omni domo mea fidelissimus est :
Vulgate
οὐχ οὕτως ὁ θεράπων μου Μωυσῆς· ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ μου πιστός ἐστιν·
LXX
My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
ASV
לֹא כֵ֖ן עַבְדִּ֣/י מֹשֶׁ֑ה בְּ/כָל בֵּיתִ֖/י נֶאֱמָ֥ן הֽוּא
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
ךָ
k
noun · 791×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מֹשֶׁ֔ה
mshh
proper_noun · 750×
נֶאֱמָ֔ן
n'mn
verb · 108×
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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Heb 3:2 · adapted"Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house."Numbers: Moses faithful in all his house — Christ compared to Moses
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2576"Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend."21 Moses' prayer is characteristic of contemplative prayer by which God's servant remains faithful to his mission. Moses converses with God often and at length, climbing the mountain to hear and entreat him and coming down to the people to repeat the words of his God for their guidance. Moses "is…
The Holy Ghost, throughout the Old Testament Scriptures, made mention of no other God or Lord, save him who is the true God. 1. Therefore neither would the Lord, nor the Holy Spirit, nor the apostles, have ever named as God, definitely and absolutely, him who was not God, unless he were truly God; nor would they have named any one in his own person Lord, except God the Father r…
Let us be imitators of those who in goat-skins and sheep-skins went about proclaiming the coming of Christ; namely, Elijah, Elisha, and Ezekiel among the prophets, with those others to whom a like testimony is borne in Scripture.
I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses our teacher, peace be upon him, was true, and that he was the chief of the prophets, both those who preceded him and those who followed him.
As a prophet, Moses spoke not his own words but the words of God. Philo describes three kinds of prophecy in Moses: direct divine speech, question-and-answer between Moses and God, and prophetic ecstasy in which the divine Spirit takes full possession of the prophet. Moses' prophecy surpasses all others because he spoke with God face to face.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 4:2 — Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
- 1Cor 4:2 — Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
- 1Cor 4:17 — For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every chur
- 1Kgs 3:6 — And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast
- Col 1:7 — As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
- Heb 3:2 — Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
- Heb 3:2 — Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
- Heb 3:5 — And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
- Job 1:8 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
- Josh 1:1 — Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,
- Josh 1:1 — Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,
- Matt 11:11 — Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
- Ps 105:26 — He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.