All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
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All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
And all Israel who around them fled to their voice, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us!”
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All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”
At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
And all Israel that were about them, fled at the crie of them: for they said, Let vs flee, least the earth swalow vs vp.
But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also.
and all Israel who `are' round about them have fled at their voice, for they said, `Lest the earth swallow us;'
and all Israel who [are] around them have fled at their voice, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us”;
All Israel around them fled from their cries. They exclaimed, “The earth may swallow us up also!”
And all Israel who around them fled to their voice, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us!”
And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up!
All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
And all Israel that were round about them, fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
When they heard their cries, all the Israelites nearby ran away, shouting, “Watch out! The earth could swallow us too!”
And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: 'Lest the earth swallow us up.'
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תִּבְלָעֵ֖נוּ to swallow up H1104 occurs in 48 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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 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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְכָל יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֛ר סְבִיבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם נָ֣סוּ לְקֹלָ֑ם כִּ֣י אָֽמְר֔וּ פֶּן תִּבְלָעֵ֖נוּ הָאָֽרֶץ
All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί πᾶς ἰσραήλ ὁ κύκλος αὐτός φεύγω ἀπό ὁ φωνή αὐτός ὅτι λέγω μήποτε καταπίνω ἐγώ ὁ γῆ
And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up 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.
וְכָל יִשְׂרָאֵל דִי בְסַחֲרָנֵיהוֹן עֲרָקוּ לְקַלְהוֹן אֲרֵי אֲמָרוּ דִלְמָא תִבְלְעִנָנָא אַרְעָא
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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.
וְכָל יִשְרָאֵל דִי בְּחַזְרָנַתְהוֹן עָרְקוּ מִן דְחִיל קָלְהוֹן הֵיךְ צַוְוחִין וְאָמְרִין זַכַּאי הוּא יְיָ וְקוּשְׁטָא הֵיךְ דִינוֹי וְקוּשְׁטָא הִינוּן פִּתְגָמֵי משֶׁה עַבְדֵיהּ וַאֲנַן רַשִׁיעַיָא דְמָרַדְנָא בֵיהּ וּבְנֵי יִשְרָאֵל אַפָּכוּ כְדִי שָׁמְעוּ אֲרוּם אָמְרוּ דִלְמָא תִבְלוֹעַ יָתָן אַרְעָא
And all Israel who were round about them fled from the terror of their voice, as they cried and said, Righteous is the Lord, and His judgment is truth, and the words of His servant Mosheh are truth; but we are wicked who have rebelled against him: and the children of Israel fled when they heard; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
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 (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bâlaʻ (“to swallow up”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 16:34 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.
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.
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.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
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.