Numbers 11:2
New International Version
When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down.

New Living Translation
Then the people screamed to Moses for help, and when he prayed to the LORD, the fire stopped.

English Standard Version
Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

Berean Standard Bible
And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

King James Bible
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.

New King James Version
Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.

New American Standard Bible
The people then cried out to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died out.

NASB 1995
The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD and the fire died out.

NASB 1977
The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died out.

Legacy Standard Bible
The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire died out.

Amplified Bible
So the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire died out.

Christian Standard Bible
Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

American Standard Version
And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto Jehovah, and the fire abated.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the people cried out to Moshe and Moshe prayed before LORD JEHOVAH and the fire ceased.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the people cried to Moses: and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was quenched.

Contemporary English Version
When the people begged Moses to help, he prayed, and the fire went out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was swallowed up.

English Revised Version
And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto the LORD, and the fire abated.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The people cried out to Moses, Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

Good News Translation
The people cried out to Moses for help; he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

International Standard Version
When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire stopped.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto the LORD, and the fire abated.

Literal Standard Version
And the people cry to Moses, and Moses prays to YHWH, and the fire is quenched;

Majority Standard Bible
And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

New American Bible
But when the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died out.

NET Bible
When the people cried to Moses, he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died out.

New Revised Standard Version
But the people cried out to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.

New Heart English Bible
The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the people cried to Moses; and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.

World English Bible
The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

Young's Literal Translation
And the people cry unto Moses, and Moses prayeth unto Jehovah, and the fire is quenched;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Complaints of the People
1Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. 2And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. 3So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.…

Cross References
Numbers 12:11
and said to Moses, "My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.

Numbers 12:13
So Moses cried out to the LORD, "O God, please heal her!"

Numbers 21:7
Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us." So Moses interceded for the people.


Treasury of Scripture

And the people cried to Moses; and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.

cried

Numbers 21:7
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Psalm 78:34,35
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God…

Jeremiah 37:3
And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.

prayer

Numbers 14:13-20
And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) …

Genesis 18:23-33
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? …

Exodus 32:10-14,31,32,34
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation…

the fire

Numbers 16:45-48
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces…

Hebrews 7:26
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

1 John 2:1,2
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: …

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Numbers 11
1. The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses' prayer
4. The people crave meat, and loathe manna
10. Moses complains of his charge
16. God promises to divide his burden unto seventy elders,
18. and to give the people meat for a month
21. Moses' faith is staggered
31. Quails are given in wrath at Kibroth Hattaavah














(2) The fire was quenched.--Better, subsided or sunk down. No precise information is given as to the extent of the fire, or as to the objects which it destroyed. It broke out in the extremity of the encampment, and it was arrested in its progress at the supplication of Moses. It seems, however, more probable that it consumed some of the Israelites themselves, than that it consumed only some of their tents. Some suppose that the reference is to the simoom, or fiery south wind, which sometimes blows in the Eastern desert, and which stifles those over whom it sweeps.

Verse 2. - And the people cried unto Moses. Fear brought them to their senses, and they knew that their only hope was in their mediator, who had already saved them by his intercession from a worse destruction (Exodus 32:30-34). The fire was quenched. Rather, "went out." As its beginning was supernatural, or at least was so ordered as to appear so, its end also was due to the Divine intervention, not to human efforts.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And the people
הָעָ֖ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

cried out
וַיִּצְעַ֥ק (way·yiṣ·‘aq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6817: To shriek, to proclaim

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Moses,
מֹשֶׁ֑ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

and he
מֹשֶׁה֙ (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

prayed
וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֤ל (way·yiṯ·pal·lêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6419: To judge, to intercede, pray

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the LORD,
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

and the fire
הָאֵֽשׁ׃ (hā·’êš)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 784: A fire

died down.
וַתִּשְׁקַ֖ע (wat·tiš·qa‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 8257: To subside, to be overflowed, cease, to abate, subdue


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