Numbers 12:6

And he said, hear now my words ,.... The Targum of Jonathan reads, "I beseech you"; and Jarchi says, this particle always so signifies; but it is not so agreeable to the language of the divine Being:

if there be a prophet among you ; not as making a doubt of it, but rather allowing that there was, and that there were others besides Moses, as even they themselves, Aaron and Miriam, and the seventy elders, and perhaps others; or at least there had been, and would be again, as there were in later times:

I the Lord will make myself known to him ; that is, declare my mind and will concerning things present, or things to come:

in a vision ; when awake, either by day or by night, representing objects to the bodily sight; as the almond tree rod, and the boiling pot, to Jeremiah, Jeremiah 1:11 ; the visions of the chariots, Ezekiel 23:24 , and dry bones, Ezekiel 37:1 , to Ezekiel, and such as were shown to Amos, Amos 7:1 , or to the mind by night, as if really discerned by the senses; as the visions of the man riding on a red horse, Zechariah 1:8 , and of the four horns, Zechariah 1:18 , and four carpenters, Zechariah 1:20 , with several others shown to Zechariah:

and will speak unto him in a dream ; as he had done to Jacob, Genesis 31:11 , and as he did afterwards to Daniel, Daniel 7:1 , and many others.