In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Parallel translations
- WEB In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
- BSB In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
- NKJV In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds,
- NASB “In a dream, a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on people, While they slumber in their beds,
- NLT He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds.
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Quick answer
Moses replies that without God's presence he does not want to go up at all. God's presence matters more than the promised land itself.
Overview
Moses refuses to value the journey or the land above the nearness of God. He grasps that what makes Israel's pilgrimage worthwhile is God Himself going with them. This radical priority rebukes any religion that seeks God's gifts while being content to do without God.
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 12:6And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
- Job 4:13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
- Gen 31:24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- Gen 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
- Dan 4:5I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
- Dan 8:18Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
- Jer 23:28The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
- Heb 1:1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
- Gen 15:12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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