Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you,
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Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you go to the land where I am bringing you,
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you,
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye be come into the lande, to the which I bring you,
When you are come into the land which I will give you,
`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, In your coming in unto the land whither I am bringing you in,
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: In your coming into the land to where I am bringing you in,
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land where I will take you,
“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you go to the land where I am bringing you,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
“Tell the Israelites, ‘When you get to the country where I'm leading you
Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land where I am guiding you,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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דַּבֵּר֙ אֶל בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֲלֵהֶ֑ם בְּבֹֽאֲכֶם֙ אֶל הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲנִ֛י מֵבִ֥יא אֶתְכֶ֖ם שָֽׁמָּה
Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you,
World English Bible · Public Domain
λαλέω ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ καί εἶπον πρός αὐτός ἐν ὁ εἰςπορεύομαι σύ εἰς ὁ γῆ εἰς ὅς ἐγώ εἰςἄγω σύ ἐκεῖ
Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, When you⌃ are entering into the land, into which I bring 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.
מַלֵל עִם בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְתֵימַר לְהוֹן בְּמֵעַלְכוֹן לְאַרְעָא דִי אֲנָא מָעֵל יָתְכוֹן לְתַמָן
(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.
מַלֵיל עִם בְּנֵי יִשְרָאֵל וְתֵימַר לְהוֹן בְּמֵיעַלְכוֹן לְאַרְעָא דַאֲנָא מָעֵיל יַתְכוֹן לְתַמָן
Speak with the sons of Israel, and say to them: When you have entered the land into which I will bring 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.
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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâm (“there”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 15:18 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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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.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword 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.