לֵ֖ךְ אֱמֹ֣ר לָהֶ֑ם שׁ֥וּבוּ לָכֶ֖ם לְאָהֳלֵיכֶֽם
Go tell them, Return you to your tents.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Deuteronomy 5:30
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 5:30 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
Go tell them, Return you to your tents.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Go tell them, Return you to your tents.
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King James Version Public Domain
Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Go say to them, “Return yourselves to your tents.”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Go tell them, Return you to your tents.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’
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King James Version Public Domain
Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Go say to them, Return ye to your tents.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Go say to them, Return ye to your tents.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Go, say vnto them, Returne you into your tentes.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Go and say to them: Return into your tents.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
`Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Go, say to them, Return for yourselves, to your tents;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Go say to them, “Return to your tents.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Go say to them, “Return yourselves to your tents.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Go, say unto them, Get you into your tents again.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
“Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Go, say to them, Return to your tents again.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Go and tell them: ‘You need to return to your tents.’
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Now say to them, Go back to your tents.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(5-27) Go say to them: Return ye to your tents.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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לְאָהֳלֵיכֶֽם
ʼôhel
H168
“to/for · tents · your”
Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- Appears 348× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 4:20
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
tent
- nomad's tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience
- dwelling, home, habitation
- the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)
- לֵ֖ךְ yâlak H3212 “walk” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֱמֹ֣ר ʼâmar H559 “say” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שׁ֥וּבוּ shûwb H7725 “return” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- לְאָהֳלֵיכֶֽם ʼôhel H168 “to/for · tents · your” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 1 noun
- 2 prepositions
Verb forms
- לֵ֖ךְ Qal · Imperative
- אֱמֹ֣ר Qal · Imperative
- שׁ֥וּבוּ Qal · Imperative
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 8 words from the Hebrew and 9 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 9 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
βαδίζω εἶπον αὐτός ἀποστρέφω σύ εἰς ὁ οἶκος σύ
Go, say to them, Return you⌃ to your houses;
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
בְּכָל אָרְחָא דִי פַקִיד יְיָ אֱלָהֲכוֹן יָתְכוֹן תְּהָכוּן בְּדִיל דְתֵיחוּן וְיֵיטַב לְכוֹן וְתוֹרְכוּן יוֹמִין בְּאַרְעָא דִי תֵירְתוּן
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
בְּכָל אָרְחָא דְפַקֵּיד יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן יַתְכוֹן תְּהָכוּן מִן בִּגְלַל דְּתֵיחוּן וְיוֹטִיב לְכוֹן וְתוֹרְכוּן יוֹמִין בְּאַרְעָא דְתֵירְתוּן
Walk in all the way which the Lord your God commandeth you, that you may live and do well, and lengthen out days in the land you shall inherit.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼôhel (“tent”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “tent” (ʼôhel) shape what this verse is saying?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «לֵ֖ךְ» is a Qal Imperative verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 5:30 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.