“In a dream, a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on people, While they slumber in their beds,
Parallel translations
- WEB In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
- KJV In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon 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,
- 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
Cross-references · 9
- Num 12:6He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
- Job 4:13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
- Gen 31:24God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
- Gen 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”
- Dan 4:5I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
- Dan 8:18Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.
- Jer 23:28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.
- Heb 1:1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
- Gen 15:12When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
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