וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֖ה אֶל הָעֵדָ֑ה זֶ֣ה הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה לַעֲשֽׂוֹת
Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done."
World English Bible · Public Domain
Leviticus 8:5
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 8:5 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
Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done."
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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
Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done."
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King James Version Public Domain
And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Moses said to the congregation, “This the thing that Yahweh commanded to do.”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done."
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And Moses said to them, “This is what the LORD has commanded to be done.”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And Moses said to them, “This is what the LORD has commanded to be done.”
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King James Version Public Domain
And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded to be done.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded to be done.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then Moses said vnto the company, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded to doe.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
He said: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded to be done.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Moses saith unto the company, `This `is' the thing which Jehovah hath commanded to do.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Moses says to the congregation, “This [is] the thing which YHWH has commanded to do.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then Moses said to the assembly, “This is what Yahweh has commanded to be done.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Moses said to the congregation, “This the thing that Yahweh commanded to do.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Moses said to the assembly, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded to be done.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded to be done.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Moses said to the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Moses told them, “The following is what the Lord has ordered to be done.”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Moses said to the people, This is what the Lord has given orders to be done.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded to be done.'
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הָעֵדָ֑ה
ʻêdâh
H5712
“the · congregation”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 149× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 12:3
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
congregation, gathering
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מֹשֶׁ֖ה Môsheh H4872 “Moses” Noun, Proper
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- הָעֵדָ֑ה ʻêdâh H5712 “the · congregation” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- זֶ֣ה zeh H2088 “this” Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular
- הַדָּבָ֔ר dâbâr H1697 “the · word” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- צִוָּ֥ה tsâvâh H6680 “to command” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- יְהוָ֖ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
- לַעֲשֽׂוֹת ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
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 →
- 10
- words
- 10
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 1 pronoun
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- צִוָּ֥ה Piel · Perfect
- לַעֲשֽׂוֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 18 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 13 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.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Leviticus 8:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 29:4–37 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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.
καί εἶπον μωυσῆς ὁ συναγωγή οὗτος εἰμί ὁ ῥῆμα ὅς ἐντέλλομαι κύριος ποιέω
And Moses said to the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded you to do.
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)
וַאֲמַר מֹשֶׁה לִכְנִשְׁתָּא דֵין פִּתְגָמָא דִי פַקִיד יְיָ לְמֶעְבָּד
(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)
וַאֲמַר משֶׁה לִכְנִישְׁתָּא דֵין פִּתְגָמָא דְפַקֵיד יְיָ לְמֶעֱבַד
And Mosheh said to the congregation: This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded to be done.
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.
Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻêdâh (“congregation”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʻêdâh carries the sense “congregation.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Exodus 29:4–37, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַיֹּ֥אמֶר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- 10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 8:5 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 →
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.