Numbers

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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.

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1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out from the land of Egypt, saying,

Notes (3)

Process
No published English Bible, commentary, or study note was open while Numbers was drafted. The wording source was the ancient-language witnesses named in the notes. A lexicon or grammar may be used for a source word. Greek, Syriac, and Latin, when they appear, witness the source wording. They are not models for the English.
Text
The continuous copy is the Leningrad Codex, read in the Open Scriptures diplomatic text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Dead Sea copies of Numbers are fragmentary. This draft does not replace Leningrad with a reading that was not read off a fragment. No earlier wording is guessed into the English. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default. Written consonants are printed. Where the Masoretic reading differs, the note says so.
Translation
Yahweh prints the divine name. The consonants in the Hebrew are YHWH. The vowels in “Yahweh” are a later convention, not a record of how the oldest copies said the name. See the glossary.

2Lift the head of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, every male, by their skulls,

Notes (1)

Translation
Se’u et rosh is “lift the head,” the idiom for a count. Edah is the congregation. Mishpachah is a clan. Beit avot is the fathers’ house. Gulgoleth is a skull, one person in the count.

3from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army in Israel. You shall number them by their armies, you and Aaron.

4With you there shall be a man for each tribe, a man who is head of his fathers’ house.

5These are the names of the men who shall stand with you. For Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur.

6For Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

7For Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab.

8For Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar.

9For Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon.

10For the sons of Joseph: for Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; for Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

11For Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni.

12For Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

13For Asher, Pagiel son of Ochran.

14For Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel.

15For Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.

16These are the called of the congregation, chiefs of the tribes of their fathers. They are the heads of the thousands of Israel.

Notes (2)

Text
The written consonants are קריאי, “called.” The Masoretic reading is קרואי, also “called,” with a different vowel letter. The written form is printed.
Translation
Nasi is a chief. Eleph here is a thousand, the unit of the count.

17Moses and Aaron took these men, who had been named by name.

18They assembled the whole congregation on the first of the second month, and they registered their lineage by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, by their skulls,

Notes (1)

Translation
Vayityaldu is “they declared their birth lines.” “Registered their lineage” is printed.

19as Yahweh commanded Moses. He numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, by their skulls, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

21those numbered of them, for the tribe of Reuben, forty-six thousand five hundred.

22For the sons of Simeon, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, his numbered men, by the number of names, by their skulls, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

Notes (1)

Translation
Some lines write pequdayv, “his numbered men.” Others write pequdehem, “their numbered men.” The suffix that is written is the one printed.

23those numbered of them, for the tribe of Simeon, fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

24For the sons of Gad, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

25those numbered of them, for the tribe of Gad, forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

26For the sons of Judah, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

27those numbered of them, for the tribe of Judah, seventy-four thousand six hundred.

28For the sons of Issachar, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

29those numbered of them, for the tribe of Issachar, fifty-four thousand four hundred.

30For the sons of Zebulun, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

31those numbered of them, for the tribe of Zebulun, fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

32For the sons of Joseph, for the sons of Ephraim, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

33those numbered of them, for the tribe of Ephraim, forty thousand five hundred.

34For the sons of Manasseh, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

35those numbered of them, for the tribe of Manasseh, thirty-two thousand two hundred.

36For the sons of Benjamin, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

37those numbered of them, for the tribe of Benjamin, thirty-five thousand four hundred.

38For the sons of Dan, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

39those numbered of them, for the tribe of Dan, sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

40For the sons of Asher, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

41those numbered of them, for the tribe of Asher, forty-one thousand five hundred.

42The sons of Naphtali, their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army:

43those numbered of them, for the tribe of Naphtali, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

44These are the ones numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, one man for each fathers’ house.

45All the numbered men of the sons of Israel, by their fathers’ house, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army in Israel,

46all the numbered men were six hundred thousand three thousand five hundred fifty.

47The Levites, by the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

48Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

49Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, and you shall not lift their head among the sons of Israel.

50You, appoint the Levites over the dwelling of the Testimony, over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the dwelling and all its furnishings, they shall serve it, and they shall camp around the dwelling.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mishkan is the dwelling. Ha-edut is the Testimony, the terms kept in the chest, as in Exodus. Keli is a furnishing, a vessel of the work.

51When the dwelling sets out, the Levites shall take it down. When the dwelling camps, the Levites shall set it up. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

Notes (1)

Translation
Zar is an outsider, someone who is not set apart for this work.

52The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own camp and each by his own banner, by their armies.

Notes (1)

Translation
Degel is a banner, the standard of a camp.

53The Levites shall camp around the dwelling of the Testimony, so that there is no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. The Levites shall keep the watch of the dwelling of the Testimony.

Notes (1)

Translation
Qetsef is wrath. Mishmeret is the watch, the duty of guarding.

54The sons of Israel did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.

Numbers

Chapter 1

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out from the land of Egypt, saying,

Notes (3)

Process
No published English Bible, commentary, or study note was open while Numbers was drafted. The wording source was the ancient-language witnesses named in the notes. A lexicon or grammar may be used for a source word. Greek, Syriac, and Latin, when they appear, witness the source wording. They are not models for the English.
Text
The continuous copy is the Leningrad Codex, read in the Open Scriptures diplomatic text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Dead Sea copies of Numbers are fragmentary. This draft does not replace Leningrad with a reading that was not read off a fragment. No earlier wording is guessed into the English. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default. Written consonants are printed. Where the Masoretic reading differs, the note says so.
Translation
Yahweh prints the divine name. The consonants in the Hebrew are YHWH. The vowels in “Yahweh” are a later convention, not a record of how the oldest copies said the name. See the glossary.

2Lift the head of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, by their clans, by their fathers’ house, by the number of names, every male, by their skulls,

Notes (1)

Translation
Se’u et rosh is “lift the head,” the idiom for a count. Edah is the congregation. Mishpachah is a clan. Beit avot is the fathers’ house. Gulgoleth is a skull, one person in the count.

3from twenty years old and upward, everyone who goes out to the army in Israel. You shall number them by their armies, you and Aaron.

4With you there shall be a man for each tribe, a man who is head of his fathers’ house.

5These are the names of the men who shall stand with you. For Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur.

6For Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

7For Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab.

8For Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar.

9For Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon.

10For the sons of Joseph: for Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; for Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

11For Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni.

12For Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

13For Asher, Pagiel son of Ochran.

14For Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel.

15For Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.

16These are the called of the congregation, chiefs of the tribes of their fathers. They are the heads of the thousands of Israel.

Notes (2)

Text
The written consonants are קריאי, “called.” The Masoretic reading is קרואי, also “called,” with a different vowel letter. The written form is printed.
Translation
Nasi is a chief. Eleph here is a thousand, the unit of the count.

17Moses and Aaron took these men, who had been named by name.

Notes (1)

Translation
Vayityaldu is “they declared their birth lines.” “Registered their lineage” is printed.

19as Yahweh commanded Moses. He numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

21those numbered of them, for the tribe of Reuben, forty-six thousand five hundred.

Notes (1)

Translation
Some lines write pequdayv, “his numbered men.” Others write pequdehem, “their numbered men.” The suffix that is written is the one printed.