(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
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(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
and the half of the congregation from the flock was 337, 500,
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(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
this half belonged to the congregation: 337,500 sheep,
this half belonged to the congregation: 337,500 sheep,
(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
(now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
(For the halfe that perteined vnto the Congregation, was three hundreth thirtie and seuen thousand sheepe and fiue hundreth,
But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that is to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
and the company's half is, of the flock three hundred thousand, and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred;
and the congregation’s half is three hundred thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and five hundred of the flock;
the community's half was 337,500 sheep,
and the half of the congregation from the flock was 337, 500,
(now the half belonging to the assembly was of the sheep, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred,
(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
(Now the half that pertained to the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
consisted of: 337,500 sheep,
(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,
now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
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The rarest word here is מֶחֱצַ֥ת half H4275 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
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מֶחֱצַ֥ת half H4275 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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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 14 Hebrew tokens and 19 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.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 20 words vs World English Bible 12. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַתְּהִ֛י מֶחֱצַ֥ת הָעֵדָ֖ה מִן הַצֹּ֑אן שְׁלֹשׁ מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֨לֶף֙ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים אֶ֔לֶף שִׁבְעַ֥ת אֲלָפִ֖ים וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת
(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί γίγνομαι ὁ ἡμίσευμα ὁ ὁ συναγωγή ἀπό ὁ πρόβατον τριακόσιοι χιλιάς καί τριάκοντα χιλιάς καί ἑπτακισχίλιοι καί πεντακόσιοι
And the half taken from the sheep, belonging to the congregation, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.
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.
וַהֲוַת פַּלְגוּת כְּנִשְׁתָּא מִן עָנָא תְּלַת מְאָה וּתְלָתִין וְשַׁבְעָא אַלְפִין וַחֲמֵשׁ מְאָה
(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.
וַהֲוָה סְכוּם פַּלְגוּת כְּנִשְׁתָּא מִן עָנָא תְּלַת מְאָה וּתְלָתִין וְשׁוּבְעָא אַלְפִין וַחֲמֵשׁ מְאָה
the amount was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
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 14 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mechĕtsâh (“half”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 31:43 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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Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.