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Numbers 1:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 1:19 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.
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Numbers 1:19 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/1/19.

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As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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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.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. And he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
  • King James Version Public Domain
    As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    As the Lord had commanded Moses, so he nombred them in the wildernesse of Sinai.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    As the Lord had commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; and he numbereth them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    as YHWH has commanded Moses; and he numbers them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then Moses recorded their numbers in the wilderness of Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. And he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    As the LORD commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    as the Lord had told Moses to do. Moses conducted this census in the Sinai desert.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    As the LORD commanded Moses, so did he number them in the wilderness of Sinai.

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distinct lemmas
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Shared distinctive vocabulary

סִינָֽי Sinai H5514 occurs in 34 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • צִוָּ֥ה Piel · Perfect
  • וַֽיִּפְקְדֵ֖ם Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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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 8 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.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 1:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 1:2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;
  • Numbers 26:1–2 It happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
  • 2 Samuel 24:1–10 Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Numbers 1:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַֽיִּפְקְדֵ֖ם בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר סִינָֽי

As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 1:19 Septuagint · lemma form

ὅς τρόπος συντάσσω κύριος ὁ μωυσῆς καί ἐπισκέπτω ἐν ὁ ἔρημος ὁ σινα

as the Lord commanded Moses, so they were numbered in the wilderness of Sina.

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)

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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    כְּמָא דִי פַקֵד יְיָ יָת משֶׁה וּמְנָנוּן בְּמַדְבְּרָא דְסִינָי

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    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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    הֵיכְמָא דְפַקֵיד יְיָ יַת משֶׁה וּמְנָנוּן בְּמַדְבְּרָא דְסִינָי

    As the Lord commanded Mosheh, they numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

    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.

Commentary

Notes on Numbers 1:19 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.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Num 1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Ver. 19. So he numbered them.] {See Trapp on "Exo 30:12"} At every general muster they paid poll money. {Exo 30:16} Such a taxation was first granted in this kingdom to Edward III; but in the next reign proved of ill consequence; the exactors receiving from the people no less sums of curses than of coin; whereupon, also, followed the first and greatest popular insurrection that ever was seen in this kingdom. {a}

{a} Daniel’s Hist.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

As the Lord commanded Moses, &c.--The numbering of the people was not an act sinful in itself, as Moses did it by divine appointment; but David incurred guilt by doing it without the authority of God. (See on Sa2 24:10).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Gill's Exposition

As the Lord commanded Moses,.... In this Moses and David differed in numbering the people of Israel; the one did it by an express command from God, and in obedience to it; the other without one, and against his will, Ch1 21:17,

so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai; where they now were when this order was given, Num 1:1; and from whence they removed the twentieth day of this month, Num 10:11; so that in less than three weeks time, perhaps much sooner, this affair was finished; and it may be, that the place of numbering them at this time is expressly observed, to distinguish it from another numbering of them, recorded in this book, which was done in the plains of Moab, Num 26:2.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them. The usual note of absolute obedience to the Divine instructions; but it serves to express the fundamental difference between this numbering and David"s.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

He numbered them - For ought that appears in one day.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Çîynay (“Sinai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Sinai” (Çîynay) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Exodus 16:1, which shares the word «Sinai», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  4. «צִוָּ֥ה» is a Piel Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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