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Numbers 18:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 18:22 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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Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Israel shall not again come near to the tent of meeting to lift up sin, to die.

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
    Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Neyther shall the children of Israel any more come neere the Tabernacle of the Congregation, lest they susteine sinne, and die.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And the sons of Israel come no more near unto the tent of meeting, to bear sin, to die,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Israel no longer come near to the Tent of Meeting, to bear sin, to die,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    From now on the people of Israel must not come near the tent of meeting, or they will be responsible for this sin and die.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Israel shall not again come near to the tent of meeting to lift up sin, to die.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    Neither shall the children of Israel henceforth come near the tent of meeting, to bear sin and die.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The Israelites are no longer allowed to approach the Tent of Meeting, or they will commit an offense and die.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

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11
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11
distinct lemmas
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Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֵ֖טְא sin H2399 occurs in 34 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 5 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 adverb
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • יִקְרְב֥וּ Qal · Imperfect
  • לָשֵׂ֥את Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • לָמֽוּת Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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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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Topical passages linked to Numbers 18:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 22:9 "'They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
  • Leviticus 20:20 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
  • Numbers 1:51–52 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
  • Numbers 3:10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."
  • Numbers 3:38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
  • Numbers 18:7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Numbers 18:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלֹא יִקְרְב֥וּ ע֛וֹד בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד לָשֵׂ֥את חֵ֖טְא לָמֽוּת

Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 18:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί οὐ προςἔρχομαι ἔτι ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ εἰς ὁ σκηνή ὁ μαρτύριον λαμβάνω ἁμαρτία θανατηφόρος

And the children of Israel shall no more draw near to the tabernacle of witness to incur fatal guilt.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Pulpit Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְלָא יִקְרְבוּן עוֹד בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא לְקַבָּלָא חוֹבָא לִמְמָת

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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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְלָא יְקַרְבוּן תּוּב בְּנֵי יִשְרָאֵל לְמַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא לְקַבָּלָא חוֹבָא לִמְמָת

    And the sons of Israel shall no more come near the tabernacle to incur the sin unto death;

    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.

Commentary

Notes on Numbers 18:22 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 →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Num 18:22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

Ver. 22. Neither must the children.] But only God’s kinsmen, the priests and Levites, as they are called, {Lev 10:3} according to some translations, or his nigh ones. So in the New Testament, others are called God’s children, God’s servants, God’s people: ministers only are called God’s men. {1Ti 6:11 2Ti 3:17}

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.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

To serve therein: for the Levites are put in their place.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(22) Lest they bear sin and die.—i.e., lest they bring sin upon themselves, the penalty of which they would have to bear. This appears to be the primary meaning of the phrase, from which the secondary meaning, viz., that of bearing sin in the sense of atoning for it, is derived. (Comp. Lev_19:17; Lev_22:9.)

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

But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation,.... In guarding the tabernacle, that no unclean persons enter into it, or any others take anything out of it, and in assisting the priests in their service, and carrying the vessels of the sanctuary when required:

and they shall bear their iniquity: that is, when they fail in the duty of their office, are not careful in their service and work, and business appointed them; if either they did not do their business themselves, or suffered others to do it, or such to come to the tabernacle who should not, they would be blameworthy and suffer for it:

it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that the children of Israel they have no inheritance; having such a plentiful provision made for them, by a statute as durable as this.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Deadly sin. That is, sin which will bring death after it. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "lest they bear sin unto death," and fall like their brethren, chap. xvii. 13. (Haydock)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

i.e. So nigh as to do any act proper to the priests or Levites.

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

22. Bear sin — That is, expiate it, or suffer its penalty, which in this case is death. The Seventy and the Vulgate render it thus: lest they commit a death-bearing sin. See Num_4:18, note; Jas_1:15; 1Jn_5:16.

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

Lest they boar sin, and die. tWml afje tacel Septuagint, labein amartian yanathforon . In the sense of incurring sin, and the consequent wrath and death.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Nigh - So nigh as to do any proper act to the priests or Levites.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chêṭᵉʼ (“sin”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word chêṭᵉʼ carries the sense “sin.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Genesis 41:9, which shares the word «sin», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  4. «יִקְרְב֥וּ» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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