Numbers 29:20

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 29:20 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 29:20 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/29/20.

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On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And on the third day: 11 bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs, sons of a year, unblemished,

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
    On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    On the third day you are to present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    On the third day you are to present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Also the third day ye shall offer eleuen bullocks, two rams, and fourteene lambes of a yeere olde without blemish,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The third day you shall offer eleven calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And on the third day: eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the third day of the assembly, you must offer eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, each without blemish.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And on the third day: 11 bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs, sons of a year, unblemished,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And on the third day, eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    “‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the third day present eleven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all of them without defects.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish;

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עַשְׁתֵּי
ʻashtêy
H6249
“one”
Adjective, Ordinal number, Both, Plural, Construct
Part of Speech
Adjective
Type
Ordinal number
Gender
Both
Number
Plural
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Full BDB Definition

Origin: apparently masc. pl. construction of H6247 in the sense of an afterthought (used only in connection with H6240 in lieu of H259 ) eleven or (ordinal) eleventh

TWOT: 1717c

one, eleven, eleventh
  1. וּבַיּ֧וֹם yôwm H3117 “and · in/at the · day” Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  2. הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֛י shᵉlîyshîy H7992 “the · third” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. פָּרִ֥ים par H6499 “bullocks” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  4. עָשָׂ֖ר ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. אֵילִ֣ם ʼayil H352 “rams” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  6. שְׁנָ֑יִם shᵉnayim H8147 “two” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, Absolute
  7. כְּבָשִׂ֧ים kebes H3532 “lambs” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  8. בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  9. שָׁנָ֛ה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  10. אַרְבָּעָ֥ה ʼarbaʻ H702 “four” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  11. עָשָׂ֖ר ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  12. תְּמִימִֽם tâmîym H8549 “complete” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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13
words
12
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is עַשְׁתֵּי one H6249 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עַשְׁתֵּי one H6249 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 6 nouns
  • 7 adjectives

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • עָשָׂ֖ר teen H6240 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 16 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.

In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 14 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Numbers 29:20 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבַיּ֧וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֛י פָּרִ֥ים עַשְׁתֵּי עָשָׂ֖ר אֵילִ֣ם שְׁנָ֑יִם כְּבָשִׂ֧ים בְּנֵי שָׁנָ֛ה אַרְבָּעָ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר תְּמִימִֽם

On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 29:20 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ ἡμέρα ὁ τρίτος μόσχος ἕνδεκα κριός δύο ἀμνός ἐνιαύσιος τέσσαρες καί δέκα ἄμωμος

On the third day eleven calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without blemish.

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 →

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)
    וּבְיוֹמָא תְּלִיתָאָה תּוֹרִין חָד עֲשַׂר דִכְרִין תְּרֵין אִימְרִין בְּנֵי שְׁנָא אַרְבְּעָא עֲשַׂר שַׁלְמִין

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    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)
    וּבְיוֹמָא תְלִיתָאָה דְחַגָא דִמְטָלַיָא תִּקְרְבוּן תּוֹרִין חַדְסַר לְחַדְסַר מַטַרְתָּא דִכְרִין תְּרֵין לִתְרֵין מַטַרְתָּא אִמְרִין בְּנֵי שְׁנָא אַרְבֵּיסַר שַׁלְמִין לַעֲשַר מַטַרְתָּא אַרְבְּעָא מִנְהוֹן מְקַרְבִין תְּרֵי תְּרֵי וְשִׁית מִנְהוֹן חָד חָד

    On the third day of the Feast of Tabernacles you shall offer twelve bullocks by twelve orders; two rams by two orders, fourteen unblemished lambs of the year, by ten orders; four of them shall offer two and two, and six of them one by one;

    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 29:20 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 →

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

the third day of the assembly

"day 3 of the festival." Here the word "assembly" refers to the Festival of Weeks. (See: Ordinal Numbers)

eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs

"11 bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs" (See: Numbers)

as were commanded

This can be stated in active form. AT: "as Yahweh commanded" (See: Active or Passive)

its grain offering, and their drink offerings

The grain offering was to be offered with the burnt offering. The drink offerings were to be offered with both the sin offering and the burnt offering. AT: "along with the grain offering and the drink offerings that accompany them" (See: Possession)

translationWords

day

year

grain offering

drink offering

sin offering

burnt offering

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 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻashtêy (“one”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “one” (ʻashtêy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Exodus 26:7, which shares the word «one», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “teen” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?

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