The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 12:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The Lord spake suddenly. How he spoke we cannot tell, but the word "suddenly" points to something unexpected and unusual. The voice seems to have come to the three in their tents before there was any thought in their minds of such an intervention.

Come out ye three, i.e; out of the camp—probably the camp of Moses and Aaron, on the east of the tabernacle court (see Numbers 3:38).

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