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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Numeri
Old Testament / Numbers / Transgressors and their punishment (Sabbath-Breaker and Korah, Num. 15-16) / Korah and his company (Num. 16) / God punishes the Israelites with a plague (Num. 16:44-45)
Old Testament / Numbers / Transgressors and their punishment (Sabbath-Breaker and Korah, Num. 15-16) / Korah and his company (Num. 16) / Aaron cleanses the Israelites with a censer, and the plague stops (Num. 16:46-50)
Old Testament / Numbers / God confirms the offices of the Levites, the Rod of Aaron (Num. 17-18) / The Israelites bring rods to the tabernacle (Num. 17:1-4, 5-7)
Old Testament / Numbers / God confirms the offices of the Levites, the Rod of Aaron (Num. 17-18) / Aaron's Rod blossoms (Num. 17:8-9)

Further details

1. God sends a plague, and Moses and Aaron intercede for the people (the latter is not in the biblical text); Aaron cleanses the Israelites with a censer, and the plague stops; 3. The Israelites bring rods; 4. Aaron's rod blossoms

Artist or creator

Paris

Date

1233 (circa)

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 270b

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 79v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 79

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