When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
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When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
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And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
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And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered;
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Passages linked to Numbers 27:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 31:2 “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
- Deuteronomy 10:6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place.
- Genesis 25:8 Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 25:17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
- Numbers 20:24-28 “Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.” Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
- Numbers 33:38 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
- Deuteronomy 32:50 Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 27:13 And when thou hast seen it, thou…
Num 27:13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
Ver. 13. Gathered unto thy people.] To that great panegyris, "the general assembly and church of the firstborn in heaven"; {Heb 12:23} to that glorious amphitheatre, where the saints shall see and say, Iδου ο Pετρος, και ο Pαυλος, &c., as Chrysostom hath it; Look, yonder is Peter, and that is Paul, &c.; we shall "sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"; have communion with them, not only as godly men, but as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Gathered unto thy people; of which phrase see Gen…
Gathered unto thy people; of which phrase see Gen 15:15; 25:8.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For ye rebelled against my commandment the desert of…
For ye rebelled against my commandment the desert of Zin,.... Both Moses and Aaron, which was the reason why they were not suffered to go into the land of Canaan, but died a little before the children of Israel came into it: what their sin was, called here a rebelling against the commandment of the Lord; See Gill on Num 20:12, and is next suggested:
in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me before their eyes; when the congregation of Israel strove against the Lord for want of water, they did not sanctify the Lord by believing in him; but expressed some degree of diffidence before the congregation about fetching water out of the rock, or questioning whether the Lord would give it to such a rebellious people, though they had his order for it:
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that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; so called to distinguish it from another Meribah, or water of strife, at Rephidim, Exo 17:7.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Thou shalt be gathered unto thy people - Moses…
Thou shalt be gathered unto thy people - Moses must die: but death does not cut him off; it only gathers him to his people, brings him to rest with the holy patriarchs that were gone before him. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were his people, the people of his choice, and to them death gathered him.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 27:13. Thou shalt be gathered unto thy people…
Num 27:13. Thou shalt be gathered unto thy people — Moses must die; but death does not cut him off; it only gathers him to his people, brings him to rest with the holy patriarchs that were gone before him. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were his people, the people of his choice, and to them death gathered him.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain People, in limbo. (Menochius) --- He was not buried…
People, in limbo. (Menochius) --- He was not buried in the grave of his ancestors, but on some part of Mount Abarim, called Nebo, Deuteronomy xxxiv. 1, 6. (Haydock) --- Moses, hoping that this sentence of exclusion from the promised land might be only a threat, had earnestly besought God to let him enter. But being forbidden to speak of the matter any more, he understood that it was as irrevocable as an oath, Deuteronomy iii. 26., and iv. 21. He turned, therefore, his whole solicitude to obtain of God some one, who might enjoy the honour and happiness of conducting the people, and putting them in possession of God’s promises. He regards not flesh and blood on this occasion, (Philo, de caritate.; Salien,) but sets a noble pattern for all ecclesiastical superiors to imitate. (Du Hamel)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 13. Thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people…
13. Thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people — The people of Moses were not the living generation, but the tenants of the grave. This announcement was made, “that he might go forward to his death with the fullest consciousness, and might set his house in order; that is to say, might finish as much as he could while still alive, and provide as much as possible what would make up after his death for the absence of his own person, upon which the whole house of Israel was now so dependent.” — Baumgarten. For the account of his death on the same summit, see Deu_32:48-52; Deu_34:1-8.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. as Aaron thy brother] See Num_20:23-29 (P ).
13. as Aaron thy brother] See Num_20:23-29 (P ).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) Gathered unto thy people.—See Gen_25:8, and Note. In…
(13) Gathered unto thy people.—See Gen_25:8, and Note. In the case of Moses, as in that of Abraham, the expression cannot be understood in reference to the place of his burial.
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