וַיָּבֹ֤א מֹשֶׁה֙ וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן אֶל פְּנֵ֖י אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד
Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 16:43
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 16:43 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
Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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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
Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Moses and Aaron went to the face of the tent of meeting,
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then Moses and Aaron were come before the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when the were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Moses cometh -- Aaron also -- unto the front of the tent of meeting.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Moses comes—Aaron also—to the front of the Tent of Meeting.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
and Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Moses and Aaron went to the face of the tent of meeting,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Moses and Aaron went before the tent of meeting.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Moses and Aaron went and stood at the front of the Tent of Meeting,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of meeting.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(17-8) And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
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מוֹעֵֽד
môwʻêd
H4150
“appointed time”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 223× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 1:14
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
appointed place, appointed time, meeting
- appointed time
- appointed time (general)
- sacred season, set feast, appointed season
- appointed meeting
- appointed place
- appointed sign or signal
- tent of meeting
- וַיָּבֹ֤א bôwʼ H935 “and · to enter” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מֹשֶׁה֙ Môsheh H4872 “Moses” Noun, Proper
- וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן ʼAhărôwn H175 “and · Aaron” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- פְּנֵ֖י pânîym H6440 “face(s) of” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
- אֹ֥הֶל ʼôhel H168 “tent of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- מוֹעֵֽד môwʻêd H4150 “appointed time” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 5 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- וַיָּבֹ֤א Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 13 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.
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.
And Moses and Aaron went in, in front of the tabernacle of witness.
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 →
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 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is môwʻêd (“appointed time”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “appointed time” (môwʻêd) shape what this verse is saying?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- The verb «וַיָּבֹ֤א» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Matthew Poole's English Annotations read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 16:43 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.
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.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.