Numbers 12:8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Cross References

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness.

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp.

Exodus 19:19

As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder.

Exodus 20:4

You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Exodus 33:11

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then he would return to the camp; but his young assistant, Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the tent.

Exodus 33:19

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you the name, ‘The Lord’; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Exodus 33:23

then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

Exodus 34:30

When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.

Proverbs 1:6

to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

Isaiah 46:5

To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, as though we were alike?

Ezekiel 17:2

O mortal, propound a riddle, and speak an allegory to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.

Numbers 14:14

and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people; for you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go in front of them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 7:89

When Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he would hear the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the covenant from between the two cherubim; thus it spoke to him.

Matthew 13:35

This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth to speak in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Luke 10:16

“Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.

John 15:15

I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

John 15:24

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.

Deuteronomy 18:15

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet.

Deuteronomy 34:10

Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.

Deuteronomy 4:15

Since you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely,

Deuteronomy 5:8

You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Colossians 1:15

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

1 Timothy 6:16

It is he alone who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see; to him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

Hebrews 1:1

Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,

Hebrews 1:3

He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

2 Peter 2:10

—especially those who indulge their flesh in depraved lust, and who despise authority. Bold and willful, they are not afraid to slander the glorious ones,

Jude 1:8

Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones.