If they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
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If they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
And if they blow one, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall congregate to you.
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If they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.
But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.
And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
And if they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
And if they blow but with one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
But if they blowe with one, then the princes, or heades ouer the thousandes of Israel shall come vnto thee.
If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude of Israel shall come to thee.
And if with one they blow, then have the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, met together unto thee;
And if they blow with one, then the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, have assembled to you;
If the priests blow only one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, must gather to you.
And if they blow one, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall congregate to you.
And if they blow with one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather unto thee.
If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, who are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall assemble themselves to thee.
But if only one is blown, then only the tribal leaders are to gather before you.
If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you.
And if they blow but with one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
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וְנוֹעֲד֤וּ to appoint H3259 occurs in 29 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 9 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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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְאִם בְּאַחַ֖ת יִתְקָ֑עוּ וְנוֹעֲד֤וּ אֵלֶ֨יךָ֙ הַנְּשִׂיאִ֔ים רָאשֵׁ֖י אַלְפֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
If they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐάν δέ ἐν εἷς σαλπίζω προςἔρχομαι πρός σύ πᾶς ὁ ἄρχων ἀρχηγός ἰσραήλ
And if they shall sound with one, all the rulers even the princes of Israel shall come to you.
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 →
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.
וְאִם בַּחֲדָא יִתְקְעוּן וְיִזְדַמְנוּן לְוָתָךְ רַבְרְבַיָא רֵישֵׁי אַלְפַיָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל
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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.
וְאִין בְּחָדָא יִתְקְעוּן וְיִזְדַמְנוּן לְוָתָךְ רַבְרְבַיָא רֵישֵׁי אַלְפַיָא דְיִשְרָאֵל
If they blow upon one (only), the princes of the heads of the thousands of Israel shall assemble to thee.
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.
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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâʻad (“to appoint”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 10:4 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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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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.