Numbers 33:4
For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the Lord had smitten among them: upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
Numbers 33:4 in other translations
| BSB | who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods. |
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| WEB | while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them. The LORD also executed judgments on their gods. |
| ASV | while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom Jehovah had smitten among them: upon their gods also Jehovah executed judgments. |
| YLT | and the Egyptians are burying those whom Jehovah hath smitten among them, every first-born, and on their gods hath Jehovah done judgments-- |
| DARBY | And the Egyptians buried those whom Jehovah had smitten among them, all the firstborn; and upon theirgods Jehovah executed judgments. |
| BBE | While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him. |
| Webster | For the Egyptians buried all their first-born, whom the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. |
What does Numbers 33:4 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 33:1-49
This is a brief review of the travels of the children of Israel through the wilderness. It is a memorable history. In their travels towards Canaan they were continually on the remove. Such is our state in this world; we have here no continuing city, and all our removes in this world are but from one part a desert to another. They were led to and fro, forward and backward, yet were all the while under the direction…
Numbers 33:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 33:4
- Exodus 12:12
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
- Zephaniah 2:11
The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
- Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Revelation 12:7-9
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
- Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
- Exodus 12:29-30
And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
- Psalms 105:36
He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
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Context
- Numbers 33:3
And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
- Numbers 33:4
For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the Lord had smitten among them: upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
- Numbers 33:5
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
Numbers 33:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Estaban enterrando los Egipcios los que Jehová había muerto de ellos, á todo primogénito; habiendo Jehová hecho también juicios en sus dioses. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et les Égyptiens enterraient ceux que l’ Éternel avait frappés parmi eux, tous les premiers-nés; et l’ Éternel avait exécuté des jugements sur leurs dieux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | als die Ägypter diejenigen begruben, welche Jehova unter ihnen geschlagen hatte, alle Erstgeborenen; und Jehova hatte an ihren Göttern Gericht geübt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et sepelientibus primogenitos, quos percusserat Dominus (nam et in diis eorum exercuerat ultionem), |