Numbers 12:8

New Living Translation

I speak to him face to face, clearly, and not in riddles! He sees the Lord as he is. So why were you not afraid to criticize my servant Moses?”

Cross References

Genesis 32:30

Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”

Psalm 17:15

Because I am righteous, I will see you. When I awake, I will see you face to face and be satisfied.

Psalm 49:4

I listen carefully to many proverbs and solve riddles with inspiration from a harp.

Exodus 19:19

As the blast of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God thundered his reply.

Exodus 20:4

“You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.

Exodus 33:11

Inside the Tent of Meeting, the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Afterward Moses would return to the camp, but the young man who assisted him, Joshua son of Nun, would remain behind in the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 33:19

The Lord replied, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will call out my name, Yahweh, before you. For I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.

Exodus 33:23

Then I will remove my hand and let you see me from behind. But my face will not be seen.”

Exodus 34:30

So when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance of Moses’ face, they were afraid to come near him.

Proverbs 1:6

by exploring the meaning in these proverbs and parables, the words of the wise and their riddles.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom can you compare God? What image can you find to resemble him?

Isaiah 46:5

“To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?

Ezekiel 17:2

“Son of man, give this riddle, and tell this story to the people of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord, they are saying of me, ‘He only talks in riddles!’”

Hosea 12:13

Then by a prophet the Lord brought Jacob’s descendants out of Egypt; and by that prophet they were protected.

Numbers 14:14

Now if you destroy them, the Egyptians will send a report to the inhabitants of this land, who have already heard that you live among your people. They know, Lord, that you have appeared to your people face to face and that your pillar of cloud hovers over them. They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 7:89

Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. The Lord spoke to him from there.

Matthew 13:35

This fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet: “I will speak to you in parables. I will explain things hidden since the creation of the world.”

Luke 10:16

Then he said to the disciples, “Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me. And anyone who rejects you is rejecting me. And anyone who rejects me is rejecting God, who sent me.”

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.

John 15:15

I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

John 15:24

If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father.

1 Corinthians 13:12

Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

2 Corinthians 3:18

So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.

Deuteronomy 18:15

Moses continued, “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.

Deuteronomy 34:10

There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.

Deuteronomy 4:15

“But be very careful! You did not see the Lord’s form on the day he spoke to you from the heart of the fire at Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 5:8

“You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind, or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.

Colossians 1:15

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

1 Timothy 6:16

He alone can never die, and he lives in light so brilliant that no human can approach him. No human eye has ever seen him, nor ever will. All honor and power to him forever! Amen.

Hebrews 1:1

Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets.

Hebrews 1:3

The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. When he had cleansed us from our sins, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven.

2 Peter 2:10

He is especially hard on those who follow their own twisted sexual desire, and who despise authority. These people are proud and arrogant, daring even to scoff at supernatural beings without so much as trembling.

Jude 1:8

In the same way, these people—who claim authority from their dreams—live immoral lives, defy authority, and scoff at supernatural beings.