King James Version
Numbers 25:10 in the King James Version says “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 25 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,”
Numbers 25:10 · KJV
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. for: Heb. with my zeal
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“And the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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