and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and seek you the priesthood also?
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and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and seek you the priesthood also?
And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
And he has presented you and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you, but do you seek the priesthood also?
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and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and seek you the priesthood also?
He has brought you near, you and all your fellow Levites, but you are seeking the priesthood as well.
He has brought you near, you and all your fellow Levites, but you are seeking the priesthood as well.
And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
and that he hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and seek ye the priesthood also?
and that he hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and seek ye the priesthood also?
He hath also taken thee to him, and all thy brethren the sonnes of Leui with thee, and seeke ye the office of the Priest also?
Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also,
yea, He doth bring thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee -- and ye have sought also the priesthood!
Indeed, He brings you near, and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you—and you have also sought the priesthood!
He has brought you near, and all your kinfolk, the descendants of Levi, with you, yet you are seeking the priesthood also!
And he has presented you and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you, but do you seek the priesthood also?
-- that he has brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee; and seek ye now the priesthood also?
and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?
And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
He has allowed you the privilege of approaching him, Korah, you and all the other Levites, but now you want to have the priesthood as well!
Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?
and that He hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and will ye seek the priesthood also?
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is כְּהֻנָּֽה priesthood H3550 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
כְּהֻנָּֽה priesthood H3550 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 24 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 11 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.
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וַיַּקְרֵב֙ אֹֽתְךָ֔ וְאֶת כָּל אַחֶ֥יךָ בְנֵי לֵוִ֖י אִתָּ֑ךְ וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּ֖ם גַּם כְּהֻנָּֽה
and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and seek you the priesthood also?
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί προςἄγω σύ καί πᾶς ὁ ἀδελφός σύ υἱός λευί μετά σύ καί ζητέω ἱερατεύω
And he has brought you near and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you, and do you⌃ seek to be priests also?
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.
וְקָרֵב יָתָךְ וְיַת כָּל אֲחָךְ בְּנֵי לְוֵי עִמָךְ וּכְעַן אַתּוּן בָּעָן אַף כְּהוּנְתָא רַבְּתָא
(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.
וְקָרֵיב יָתָךְ וְיַת כָּל אָחָךְ בְּנֵי לֵוִי עִמָךְ וּכְדוּן אַתּוּן תַּבְעִין אוּף כְּהוּנְתָּא רַבְּתָא
But so hath he brought nigh thee and all the sons of Levi with thee and now do ye demand the high-priesthood also?
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 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kᵉhunnâh (“priesthood”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 16:10 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.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
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.
Scofield Reference Notes
C. I. Scofield
The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — 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.