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Numbers 16:44

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 16:44 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.
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Numbers 16:44 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/16/44.

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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
World English Bible · Public Domain
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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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    and the LORD said to Moses,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    and the LORD said to Moses,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the Lord said to Moses:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the Lord said to Moses,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the Lord said to Moses,
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    (17-9) And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:

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5
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5
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
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Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 2 nouns
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר Piel · Sequential Imperfect
  • לֵּאמֹֽר Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 5 words from the Hebrew and 9 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 9 words vs World English Bible 5. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

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Hebrew Numbers 16:44 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 16:44 Septuagint · lemma form
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on Numbers 16:44 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

Get you up from among this congregation,.... That is, withdraw from them, and be separate, that they might not be involved in the same destruction with them, as well as that they might have no concern for them, or plead with the Lord in prayer on their account, but let him alone to destroy them, as follows:

that I may consume them in a moment; as he was able to do, and had proposed to do it before, but they entreated him that he would not, Num 16:21; as they again do:

and they fell upon their faces; in prayer, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; and so Aben Ezra observes, it was to pray to deprecate the wrath of God, and to implore his pardoning mercy for this sinful people; which shows what an excellent temper and disposition these men were of, to pray for them that had so despitefully used them as to charge them with murder, and were about to commit it on them; see Mat 5:44.

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unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

so that I may consume them

God speaks of destroying them as if he would eat them. AT: "so that I may destroy them" or "and I will destroy them" (See: Metaphor)

lay down with their faces to the ground

This indicates that Moses and Aaron are humbling themselves before God. (See: Symbolic Action)

anger is coming from Yahweh

Anger coming from God represents God showing his anger. AT: "Yahweh is showing us his anger" or "Yahweh is very angry and is acting according to his anger" (See: Metonymy)

translationWords

Yahweh

Moses

consume

Aaron

fire

altar

incense

atonement

anger

plague

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Môsheh (“Moses”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Moses” (Môsheh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר» is a Piel Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how John Gill's Exposition and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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