The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
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The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do just as my master is commanding.
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The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “Your servants will do just as our lord commands.
The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “Your servants will do just as our lord commands.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake vnto Moses, saying, Thy seruats will doe as my lorde commandeth:
And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what my lord commandeth.
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben speak unto Moses, saying, `Thy servants do as my lord is commanding;
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben speak to Moses, saying, “Your servants do as my lord is commanding;
The descendants of Gad and Reuben spoke to Moses and said, “Your servants will do as you, our master, commands.
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do just as my master is commanding.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commands.
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
The tribes of Gad and Reuben promised Moses, “Sir, we your servants will do just as you have ordered.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said to Moses, Your servants will do as my lord says.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
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In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר בְּנֵי גָד֙ וּבְנֵ֣י רְאוּבֵ֔ן אֶל מֹשֶׁ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ יַעֲשׂ֔וּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲדֹנִ֖י מְצַוֶּֽה
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἶπον ὁ υἱός ρουβην καί ὁ υἱός γαδ πρός μωυσῆς λέγω ὁ παῖς σύ ποιέω καθά ὁ κύριος ἐγώ ἐντέλλομαι
And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as our lord commands.
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.
וַאֲמָרוּ בְנֵי גָד וּבְנֵי רְאוּבֵן לְמשֶׁה לְמֵימָר עַבְדָיךְ יַעְבְדוּן כְּמָא דִי רִבּוֹנִי מְפַקֵד
(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.
וַאֲמָרוּ בְּנֵי גָד וּבְנֵי רְאוּבֵן בְּאַסְכָּמוּתָא חֲדָא לְמשֶׁה לְמֵימָר עַבְדָךְ יַעַבְדוּן כָּל דְרִבּוֹנִי מְפַקֵיד
And the sons of Gad and Reuben spake to Mosheh with one consent, saying, Thy servants will do whatever my lord hath commanded:
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 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gâd (“Gad”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 32:25 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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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.