Numbers Chapter 16 verse 12 Holy Bible

ASV Numbers 16:12

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We will not come up:
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BBE Numbers 16:12

Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: and they said, We will not come up:
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DARBY Numbers 16:12

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said, We will not come up!
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KJV Numbers 16:12

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
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WBT Numbers 16:12

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: who said, We will not come up:
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WEB Numbers 16:12

Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We won't come up:
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YLT Numbers 16:12

And Moses sendeth to call for Dathan and for Abiram sons of Eliab, and they say, `We do not come up;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram. The part really taken by these men in the agitation is very obscure. They were not of the two hundred and fifty, nor were they with them when they gathered together against Moses and Aaron - perhaps because they took no interest in ecclesiastical matters, and only resented the secular domination of Moses. Neither can we tell why Moses sent for them at this juncture, unless he suspected them of being in league with Korah (see below on verse 24). We will not come up, i.e., to the tabernacle, as being spiritually the culminating point of the camp.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram . . . --If, as seems probable from Numbers 16:3, Dathan and Abiram had joined Korah and his company in the address to Moses which is contained in Numbers 16:3, they must have subsequently withdrawn themselves and retired to their own tents, from which they refused to go up at the bidding of Moses.