Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
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Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
And you kill this people as one man, then the nations who heard your hearing will say, saying,
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Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
That thou wilt kill this people as one man: so the heathen which haue heard the fame of thee, shall thus say,
May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:
`And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,
And You have put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Your fame have spoken, saying,
Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,
And you kill this people as one man, then the nations who heard your hearing will say, saying,
if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,
Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
If you kill all these people in one go, the nations who have heard about you will say,
Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying:
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שִׁמְעֲךָ֖ hearing H8088 — appearing just 18 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שִׁמְעֲךָ֖ hearing H8088 occurs in 17 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 18 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.
Topical passages linked to Numbers 14:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְהֵמַתָּ֛ה אֶת הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה כְּאִ֣ישׁ אֶחָ֑ד וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר שָׁמְע֥וּ אֶֽת שִׁמְעֲךָ֖ לֵאמֹֽר
Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἐκτρίβω ὁ λαός οὗτος ὡσεί ἄνθρωπος εἷς καί εἶπον ὁ ἔθνος ὅσος ἀκούω ὁ ὄνομα σύ λέγω
And if you shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard your name shall speak, saying,
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.
וּתְקַטֵּל יָת עַמָא הָדֵין כְּגַבְרָא חָד וְיֵימְרוּן עַמְמַיָא דִי שְׁמָעוּ יָת שְׁמַע גְבֻרְתָּךְ לְמֵימָר
(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.
וּמִן בָּתַר כָּל נִסַיָא הָאִילֵן אַנְתְּ קָטֵיל יַת עַמָא הָדֵין כְּגַבְרָא חָד וְיֵימְרוּן עַמְמַיָא דְיִשְׁמְעוּ יַת שֵׁמַע גְבוּרְתָּךְ לְמֵימָר
and after all of these miracles wilt Thou kill this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard the fame and of Thy power will speak saying:
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 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shêmaʻ (“hearing”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 14:15 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
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.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
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.