Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
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Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Build for yourselves cities for your children and walls for your livestock, and you shall do what has gone out from your mouth.”
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Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Builde you then cities for your children and folds for your sheepe, and do that ye haue spoke.
Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.
build for yourselves cities for your infants, and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth do ye.'
build for yourselves cities for your infants and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth you do.”
Build cities for your families and pens for your sheep; then do what you have said.”
Build for yourselves cities for your children and walls for your livestock, and you shall do what has gone out from your mouth.”
Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and folds for your flocks, and do that which has gone out of your mouth.
Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Go ahead and build towns for your children and stone walls for your flocks, but make sure you do what you've promised!”
So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לְצֹנַאֲכֶ֑ם flock H6792 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לְצֹנַאֲכֶ֑ם flock H6792 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 26 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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בְּנֽוּ לָכֶ֤ם עָרִים֙ לְטַפְּכֶ֔ם וּגְדֵרֹ֖ת לְצֹנַאֲכֶ֑ם וְהַיֹּצֵ֥א מִפִּיכֶ֖ם תַּעֲשֽׂוּ
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί οἰκοδομέω σύ αὐτός πόλις ὁ ἀποσκευή σύ καί ἔπαυλις ὁ κτῆνος σύ καί ὁ ἐκπορεύομαι ἐκ ὁ στόμα σύ ποιέω
And you⌃ shall build for yourselves cities for your store, and folds for your cattle; and you⌃ shall do that which proceeds out of your mouth.
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.
בְּנוּ לְכוֹן קִרְוִין לְטַפְלְכוֹן וְחַטְרִין לְעַנְכוֹן וּדְיִפּוֹק מִפּוּמְכוֹן תַּעְבְּדוּן
(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.
בְּנוּ לְכוֹן קוּרְיַין לְטַפְלְכוֹן וְדִירִין לְעַנְכוֹן וּדְנָפִיק מִפּוּמְכוֹן תַּעַבְדוּן
Build (then) cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do that which hath proceeded from your mouth.
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 (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tsônêʼ (“flock”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 32:24 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 Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — 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.
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.