Pseudo Jonathan Deuteronomy 34:5

Targum

And the Lord said to him, This is the end of the word concerning the land, and this is the land which I covenanted unto Abraham, to Izhak, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it unto your children. I grant thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not pass over to it. Mosheh, the Rabban of Israel, was born on the seventh day of the month Adar, and on the seventh day of Adar he was gathered from the world. A voice fell from heaven, and thus spake: Come, all ye who have entered into the world, and behold the grief of Mosheh, the Rabban of Israel, who hath laboured, but not to please himself, and who is ennobled with four goodly crowns: the crown of the Law is his, because he brought it from the heavens above, when there was revealed to him the Glory of the Lord"s Shekinah, with two thousand myriads of angels, and forty and two thousand chariots of fire. The crown of the Priesthood bath been his in the seven days of the peace offerings.

John 12:28

New Testament

26 If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. 27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him. 30 Jesus said, “This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

 Notes and References

"... Beginning with the Mishnah and ending with the Midrashim, he highlights important places where the term 'bat kol' appears. One such example comes from the Mishnah where we read that a woman is allowed to remarry on account of a bat kol declaring that “so and so, the husband of so and so” has died.38 Elsewhere we find the rabbis asserting that forty days prior to the formation of an embryo, a bat kol goes forth and announces “the daughter of so and so, for so and so, this particular house for so and so, and this particular field for so and so.” ... he notes the phrase appears eight times in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, usually beginning with the phrase “from heaven.” The first four occur in the Torah (Genesis 38:26; Numbers 21:6; Deuteronomy 28:15, 34:5) while the remaining four examples are found in the Targumim of, Song of Solomon (2:14; 4:1), Esther (5:14), and Lamentations (3:38) ..."

Grullon, John D. Heavenly Voice, Earthly Echo: Unraveling the Function of the Bat Kol in Rabbinic Writings (pp. 16-17) Florida International University, 2016

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