Numbers 12:6

WEB

He said, "Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

KJV

And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

Commentary

And he said, hear now my words,.... The Targum of Jonathan reads, "I beseech you"; and Jarchi says, this particle always so signifies; but it is not so agreeable to the language of the divine Being: if there be a prophet among you; not as making a doubt of it, but rather allowing that there was, and that there were others besides Moses, as even they themselves, Aaron and Miriam, and the seventy elders, and perhaps others; or at least there had been, and would be again, as there were in later times: I the Lord will make myself known to him; that is, declare my mind and will concerning things present, or things to come: in a vision; when awake, either by day or by night, representing objects to the bodily sight; as the almond tree rod, and the boiling pot, to Jeremiah, Jer 1:11 ; the visions of the chariots, Eze 23:24 , and dry bones, Eze 37:1 , to Ezekiel, and such as were shown to Amos, Amo 7:1 , or to the mind by night, as if really discerned by the senses; as the visions of the man riding on a red horse, Zac 1:8 , and of the four horns, Zac 1:18 , and four carpenters, Zac 1:20 , with several others shown to Zechariah: and will speak unto him in a dream; as he had done to Jacob, Gen 31:11 , and as he did afterwards to Daniel, Dan 7:1 , and many others.