Numbers 12

Numbers 12:6

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.

It is my manner, when I would honour any man with the calling and employment of a prophet, to reveal my will to that man, either by dreams or visions, which are the two usual means, whereby I am wont to impart myself unto men.

Numbers 12:7

My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house.

But, as for my servant Moses, he is none of the ordinary rank of prophets; him, as whom I have found faithful in all the service that I have committed unto him, I have thought good to grace with an especial favour and entireness.

Numbers 12:8

With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches.

With him will I speak in a more familiar manner, than with the rest of mankind, even as a man would talk with his friend, by an immediate revelation of myself unto him: here shall need no dreams or visions, wherein to convey my will and pleasure unto him; but his very senses shall apprehend and perceive the plain and clear demonstration of my presence, and the notice of my will, by a familiar and sociable conference.