Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
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Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
Of Merari the clan of the Mahlite and the clan of the Mushite. These they, the clans of Merari.
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
From Merari came the clans of the Mahlites and Mushites; these were the Merarite clans.
From Merari came the clans of the Mahlites and Mushites; these were the Merarite clans.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
Of Merari came the familie of the Mahlites, and the familie of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
And of Merari are the families of the Moholites, and Musites, reckoned up by their names:
Of Merari `is' the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these `are' the families of Merari.
Of Merari—the family of the Mahlite and the family of the Mushite; these [are] the families of Merari.
Two clans have come from Merari: the clan of the Mahlites and the clan of the Mushites. These clans have come from Merari.
Of Merari the clan of the Mahlite and the clan of the Mushite. These they, the clans of Merari.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
The family of Mahli and the family of Mushi came from Merari. These were the families of Merari.
From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַמַּחְלִ֔י Mahlites H4250 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַמַּחְלִ֔י Mahlites H4250 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 18 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 13 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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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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לִמְרָרִ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֨חַת֙ הַמַּחְלִ֔י וּמִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַמּוּשִׁ֑י אֵ֥לֶּה הֵ֖ם מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת מְרָרִֽי
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὁ μεραρι δῆμος ὁ μοολι καί δῆμος ὁ μουσι οὗτος εἰμί δῆμος μεραρι
To Merari belonged the family of Mooli, and the family of Musi: these are the families of Merari.
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 →
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.
לִמְרָרִי זַרְעִית מַחְלִי וְזַרְעִית מוּשִׁי אִלֵין אִנוּן זַרְעֲיַת מְרָרִי
(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.
לִמְרָרִי גְנִיסְתָּא דְמַחְלִי וּגְנִיסְתָּא דְמוּשִׁי אִלֵין הִינוּן גְנִיסַת מְרָרִי
Of Merari, the families of Machli and Mushi, ___
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.
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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Machlîy (“Mahlites”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 3:33 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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The Biblical Illustrator
Joseph S. Exell
The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
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Door43 World Missions Community
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