Numbers 16:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Moses said,“This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּאמֶר֮ מֹשֶׁה֒ בְּזֹאת֙ תֵּֽדְע֔וּן כִּֽי־יְהוָ֣ה שְׁלָחַ֔נִי לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַֽמַּעֲשִׂ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה כִּי־לֹ֖א מִלִּבִּֽי׃

Transliteration

And wayyōʾmer Mōšeh, by-this tēdəʿûn that-YHWH šəlāḥanî to-laʿăśôt ʾēt all-the-hammaʿăśîm these, for-not from-my-heart

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Moses
• *tēdəʿûn*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural + paragogic nun - you will know
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
• *šəlāḥanî*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular + 1st common singular suffix - he has sent me
• *laʿăśôt*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - to do
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *hammaʿăśîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the works/deeds

Word Meanings

• *tēdəʿûn*: you will know/recognize/acknowledge
• *millibî*: from my heart/of my own mind/of my own accord

Referenced Verses

• Exod 3:12 : 12 He replied,“Surely I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve God at this mountain.”
• Jer 23:16 : 16 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says to the people of Jerusalem:“Do not listen to what those prophets are saying to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They are reporting visions of their own imaginations, not something the LORD has given them to say.
• Ezek 13:17 : 17 “As for you, son of man, turn toward the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. Prophesy against them
• John 5:36 : 36 “But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.
• John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
• John 11:42 : 42 I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
• John 14:11 : 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.
• Zech 2:9 : 9 “Yes, look here, I am about to punish them so that they will be looted by their own slaves.” Then you will know that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has sent me.
• Zech 4:9 : 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this temple, and his hands will complete it.” Then you will know that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has sent me to you.
• John 5:30 : 30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
• Exod 4:1-9 : 1 The Source of Sufficiency Moses answered again,“And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say,‘The LORD has not appeared to you’?” 2 The LORD said to him,“What is that in your hand?” He said,“A staff.” 3 The LORD said,“Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it. 4 But the LORD said to Moses,“Put out your hand and grab it by the tail”– so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand– 5 “that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.” 6 The LORD also said to him,“Put your hand into your robe.” So he put his hand into his robe, and when he brought it out– there was his hand, leprous like snow! 7 He said,“Put your hand back into your robe.” So he put his hand back into his robe, and when he brought it out from his robe– there it was, restored like the rest of his skin! 8 “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign. 9 And if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to you, then take some water from the Nile and pour it out on the dry ground. The water you take out of the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”
• Exod 7:9 : 9 “When Pharaoh says to you,‘Do a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron,‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ it will become a snake.”
• Num 24:13 : 13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD to do either good or evil of my own will, but whatever the LORD tells me I must speak’?
• Deut 18:22 : 22 whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”
• 1 Kgs 18:36 : 36 When it was time for the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and prayed:“O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.