Numbers 16:28
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New International Version (©2011)
Then Moses said, "This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea:

New Living Translation (©2007)
And Moses said, "This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things that I have done--for I have not done them on my own.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Moses said, "By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these deeds; for this is not my doing.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then Moses said, "This is how you will know that the LORD sent me to do all these things and that it was not of my own will:

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then Moses said, "This is how you'll know that the LORD has sent me to do all these awesome works—they're not coming merely from me.

NET Bible (©2006)
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Moses said, "This is how you will know that the LORD sent me to do all these things and that it wasn't my idea:

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own will.

American King James Version
And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind.

American Standard Version
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own head:

Darby Bible Translation
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these deeds, for they are not out of my own heart:

English Revised Version
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses said, by this ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works: for I have not done them of my own mind.

World English Bible
Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind.

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses saith, 'By this ye do know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works, that they are not from my own heart;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:23-34 The seventy elders of Israel attend Moses. It is our duty to do what we can to countenance and support lawful authority when it is opposed. And those who would not perish with sinners, must come out from among them, and be separate. It was in answer to the prayer of Moses, that God stirred up the hearts of the congregation to remove for their own safety. Grace to separate from evil-doers is one of the things that accompany salvation. God, in justice, left the rebels to the obstinacy and hardness of their own hearts. Moses, by Divine direction, when all Israel were waiting the event, declares that if the rebels die a common death, he will be content to be called and counted an imposter. As soon as Moses had spoken the word, God caused the earth to open and swallow them all up. The children perished with their parents; in which, though we cannot tell how bad they might be to deserve it, or how good God might be otherwise to them; yet of this we are sure, that Infinite Justice did them no wrong. It was altogether miraculous. God has, when he pleases, strange punishments for the workers of iniquity. It was very significant. Considering how the earth is still in like manner loaded with the weight of man's sins, we have reason to wonder that it does not now sink under its load. The ruin of others should be our warning. Could we, by faith, hear the outcries of those that are gone down to the bottomless pit, we should give more diligence than we do to escape for our lives, lest we also come into their condemnation.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 28. - Nor I have not done them of mine own mind. Literally, "that not of my heart", כִּיאּלֹא מִלִּבּי. Septuagint, ὅτι οὐκ ἀπ ἐμαυτου .

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Moses said, hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works,.... To bring the people of Israel out of Egypt, to exchange the firstborn for the Levites, to make Aaron and his sons priests, to give the Levites to them, and to set Elizaphan over the Kohathites, things which these men found fault with, and questioned his authority for doing them:

for I have not done them of my own mind; or "not out of my heart" (q); he had not devised them himself, and done them of his own head, and in any arbitrary way, without the will of God or any authority from him, as these men suggested.

(q) "quod non de corde meo", Pagninus, Montanus.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28-34. Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works—The awful catastrophe of the earthquake which, as predicted by Moses, swallowed up those impious rebels in a living tomb, gave the divine attestation to the mission of Moses and struck the spectators with solemn awe.

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Moses Separates the People
…27So they got up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children. 28And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind. 29If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD has not sent me.

Exodus 3:12 And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain."
Exodus 4:12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."
Exodus 4:15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do.
Numbers 24:13 Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD--and I must say only what the LORD says'?
1 Kings 18:36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.