Numbers 12:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Mouth

Dark speeches

Similitude

Were ye

Jude 1:8

General references

Genesis 17:22

Deuteronomy 5:4

Bible References

Mouth

And they will say to the inhabitant of this land, They have heard that You, Jehovah, are among this people, who is seen eye to eye. You are Jehovah, and Your cloud stands over them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

And Jehovah would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned again to the camp. But his servant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the middle of the tabernacle.

And never since has a prophet like Moses arisen in Israel, whom Jehovah knew face to face,

who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

Dark speeches

I will bow down my ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying on the harp.

Son of man, put out a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.

And I said, Ah Lord Jehovah! They say of me, Does he not speak parables?

so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known.

Similitude

And they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as the essence of the heavens for clearness.

And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.

And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.

Therefore take good heed to yourselves, for you saw no kind of likeness on the day Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

To whom then will you compare God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

To whom will you compare Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we may be alike?

No one has seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also. And from now on you know Him and have seen Him.

If I had not done among them the works which no other did, they would not have had sin. But now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father.

But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.

who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation.

who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power, through Himself cleansing of our sins, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high,

Were ye

And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face had become luminous. And they were afraid to come near him.

The one hearing you hears Me, and he who despises you despises Me; he who rejects you also rejects Him who sent Me.

Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who also has given us His Holy Spirit.

and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.

Likewise, indeed, also these dreaming ones even defile flesh, and despise rulership, and speak evil of glories.

General references

And He left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

Jehovah talked with you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire;