Numbers 20:27
Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went up into mount Hor before all the multitude.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fecit Moyses ut præceperat Dominus : et ascenderunt in montem Hor coram omni multitudine.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐποίησεν Μωυσῆς καθὰ συνέταξεν Κύριος, καὶ ἀνεβίβασεν αὐτὸν εἰς Ὣρ τὸ ὄρος ἐναντίον πάσης τῆς συναγωγῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּ֣עַשׂ מֹשֶׁ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר צִוָּ֣ה יְהוָ֑ה וַֽיַּעֲלוּ֙ אֶל הֹ֣ר הָהָ֔ר לְעֵינֵ֖י כָּל הָעֵדָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XCIX
10. Come, my brethren; if we ask how these were punished, the Lord will aid me to tell you. Let us consider these three persons, Moses, Aaron, and Samuel: and how they were punished, since he said, “Thou hast punished all their own affections:” meaning those affections of theirs, which the Lord knew in their hearts, which men knew not. For they were living in the midst of the people of God, without complaint from man. But what do we say? That perhaps the early life of Moses was sinful; for he fled from Egypt, after slaying a man. The early life of Aaron also was such as would displease God; for he allowed a maddened and infatuated people to make an idol to worship; and an idol was made for God’s people to worship. What sin did Samuel, who was given up when an infant to the temple? He passed all his life amid the holy sacraments of God: from childhood the servant of God. …