תּוֹרָ֥ה אַחַ֛ת וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט אֶחָ֖ד יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֑ם וְלַגֵּ֖ר הַגָּ֥ר אִתְּכֶֽם
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 15:16
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 15:16 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
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.
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Compare translations 3
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
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.
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King James Version Public Domain
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the sojourner, the one sojourning with you.’”
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
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
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King James Version Public Domain
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
One Lawe and one maner shall serue both for you and for the stranger that soiourneth with you.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
one law and one ordinance is to you and to the sojourner who is sojourning with you.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
one law and one ordinance is for you and for the sojourner who is sojourning with you.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The same law and decree must apply to you and to the foreigner who is staying with you.'”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the sojourner, the one sojourning with you.’”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The same rules and regulations apply to you and the foreigner living among you.’”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
One law and one ordinance shall be both for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
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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וְלַגֵּ֖ר
gêr
H1616
“and · to/for the · sojourner”
Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 92× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 15:13
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
sojourner
- a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights
- of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights
- תּוֹרָ֥ה tôwrâh H8451 “law” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- אַחַ֛ת ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט mishpâṭ H4941 “and · judgment” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֶחָ֖ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- יִהְיֶ֣ה hâyâh H1961 “to be” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְלַגֵּ֖ר gêr H1616 “and · to/for the · sojourner” Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הַגָּ֥ר gûwr H1481 “the · sojourning” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אִתְּכֶֽם ʼêth H854 “with · you” Preposition + 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 →
- 9
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 2 adjectives
- 2 prepositions
Verb forms
- יִהְיֶ֣ה Qal · Imperfect
- הַגָּ֥ר Qal · Participle Active
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אַחַ֛ת one H259 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 15 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.
νόμος εἷς εἰμί καί δικαίωμα εἷς εἰμί σύ καί ὁ προσήλυτος ὁ προςκεῖμαι ἐν σύ
There shall be one law and one ordinance for you, and for the stranger that abides among 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 →
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)
אוֹרַיְתָא חֲדָא וְדִינָא חַד יְהֵי לְכוֹן וּלְגִיוֹרָא דְיִתְגַיַר עִמְכוֹן
(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)
אוֹרַיְיתָא חֲדָא וְדִינָא חַד יְהֵי לְכוֹן וּלְגִיוֹרָא דִי יִתְגַיְירוּן עִמְכוֹן
One law and one judgment shall be for you and for the sojourner who sojourneth with you.
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.
Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gêr (“sojourner”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “sojourner” (gêr) shape what this verse is saying?
- What does the repetition of “one” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «יִהְיֶ֣ה» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- “one” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 15:16 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 →
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.