וַיָּ֤שָׁב אַהֲרֹן֙ אֶל מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶל פֶּ֖תַח אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד וְהַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה נֶעֱצָֽרָה
Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 16:50
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 16:50 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
Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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
Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Aaron returned to Moses, to the opening of the tent of meeting, and the plague was restrained.
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
Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, since the plague had been halted.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, since the plague had been halted.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Aaron went againe vnto Moses before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the plague was stayed.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant after the destruction was over.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Aaron turneth back unto Moses, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, and the plague hath been restrained.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Aaron turns back to Moses, to the opening of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague has been restrained.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and the plague ended.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Aaron returned to Moses, to the opening of the tent of meeting, and the plague was restrained.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Aaron returned to Moses to the entrance of the tent of meeting; and the plague was stayed.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Aaron returned to Moses at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Then Aaron went back to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting because the plague had been stopped.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Then Aaron went back to Moses to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the disease came to a stop.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(17-15) And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stayed.
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וְהַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה
maggêphâh
H4046
“and · the · plague”
Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 26× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 9:14
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence, strike, smite
- blow (fatal stroke)
- slaughter (of battle)
- plague, pestilence (divine judgment)
- וַיָּ֤שָׁב shûwb H7725 “and · to return” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אַהֲרֹן֙ ʼAhărôwn H175 “Aaron” Noun, Proper
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- מֹשֶׁ֔ה Môsheh H4872 “Moses” Noun, Proper
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- פֶּ֖תַח pethach H6607 “doorway of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֹ֣הֶל ʼôhel H168 “tent of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- מוֹעֵ֑ד môwʻêd H4150 “appointed time” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְהַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה maggêphâh H4046 “and · the · plague” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- נֶעֱצָֽרָה ʻâtsâr H6113 “to restrain” Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
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 →
- 10
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְהַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה plague H4046 occurs in 25 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 6 nouns
- 2 prepositions
Verb forms
- וַיָּ֤שָׁב Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- נֶעֱצָֽרָה Niphal · Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אֶל to H413 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 17 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.
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Numbers 16:50 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Numbers 16:43 Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
- 1 Chronicles 21:26–30 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the plague ceased.
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 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is maggêphâh (“plague”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “plague” (maggêphâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- Exodus 9:14 shares the word «plague» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “to” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- 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 «וַיָּ֤שָׁב» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- “to” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 16:50 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 →
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.