וְנָתַתָּ֣ה הַכֶּ֔סֶף לְאַהֲרֹ֖ן וּלְבָנָ֑יו פְּדוּיֵ֕י הָעֹדְפִ֖ים בָּהֶֽם
and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 3:48
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 3:48 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
and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."
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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
and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall give the silver to Aaron and to his sons, the ransoms of the ones being in excess among them.”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.”
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and thou shalt give the money wherewith the odd number of them is redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And thou shalt giue the money, wherwith the odde nomber of them is redeemed, vnto Aaron and to his sonnes.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And then shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of them that are above.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and you have given the money to Aaron and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You must give the price of redemption that you paid to Aaron and his sons.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall give the silver to Aaron and to his sons, the ransoms of the ones being in excess among them.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and thou shalt give the money unto Aaron and unto his sons for those in excess among them who are to be ransomed.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt give to Aaron and to his sons the money, with which the odd number of them is to be redeemed.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He handed the money over to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the extra Israelites.”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And thou shalt give the money wherewith they that remain over of them are redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons.'
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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פְּדוּיֵ֕י
pâdûwy
H6302
“ransoms of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Numbers 3:46
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
ransom
- וְנָתַתָּ֣ה nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הַכֶּ֔סֶף keçeph H3701 “the · silver” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לְאַהֲרֹ֖ן ʼAhărôwn H175 “to/for · Aaron” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- וּלְבָנָ֑יו bên H1121 “and · to/for · sons · his” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- פְּדוּיֵ֕י pâdûwy H6302 “ransoms of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- הָעֹדְפִ֖ים ʻădaph H5736 “the · being in excess” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
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 →
- 7
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is פְּדוּיֵ֕י ransom H6302 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
פְּדוּיֵ֕י ransom H6302 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- וְנָתַתָּ֣ה Qal · Perfect
- הָעֹדְפִ֖ים Qal · Participle Active
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 22 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.
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.
καί δίδωμι ὁ ἀργύριον ἀαρών καί ὁ υἱός αὐτός λύτρον ὁ πλεονάζω ἐν αὐτός
And you shall give the money to Aaron and to his sons, the ransom of those who exceed in number among them.
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)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתִתֵּן כַּסְפָּא לְאַהֲרֹן וְלִבְנוֹהִי פֻּרְקַן דְיַתִּירִין בְּהוֹן
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתִתֵּן כַּסְפָּא לְאַהֲרן וְלִבְנוֹי פִּרְקוֹנֵי מַה דְמִשְׁתַּיְירָן בְּהוֹן
And thou shalt give the Shekel unto Aharon, and to his sons, as the redemption of them who are more than they.
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.
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 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pâdûwy (“ransom”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “ransom” (pâdûwy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Numbers 3:46, which shares the word «ransom», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וְנָתַתָּ֣ה» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 15 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 3:48 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 →
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.