The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
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The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, “What Yahweh has spoken to your servants, so we will do.
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The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.
The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the Lord hath said vnto thy seruants, so will we doe.
And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answer, saying, `That which Jehovah hath spoken unto thy servants -- so we do;
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answer, saying, “That which YHWH has spoken to your servants, so we do;
So the descendants of Gad and Reuben answered and said, “As Yahweh has said to us, your servants, this is what we will do.
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, “What Yahweh has spoken to your servants, so we will do.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah has said to thy servants, so will we do.
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said to thy servants, so will we do.
The tribes of Gad and Reuben responded, “We will do just as the Lord has told us, your servants.
Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: 'As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיַּֽעֲנ֧וּ בְנֵי גָ֛ד וּבְנֵ֥י רְאוּבֵ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֧ר יְהוָ֛ה אֶל עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ כֵּ֥ן נַעֲשֶֽׂה
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀποκρίνω ὁ υἱός ρουβην καί ὁ υἱός γαδ λέγω ὅσος ὁ κύριος λέγω ὁ θεράπων αὐτός οὕτως ποιέω
And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad answered, saying, Whatsoever the Lord says to his servants, that will we do.
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.
וְאָתִיבוּ בְנֵי גָד וּבְנֵי רְאוּבֵן לְמֵימָר יָת דִי מַלִיל יְיָ לְעַבְדָךְ כֵּן נַעְבֵּד
(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.
וְאָתִיבוּ בְנֵי גָד וּבְנֵי רְאוּבֵן וַאֲמָרוּ יַת כָּל דְמַלֵיל יְיָ לְעַבְדָךְ הֵיכְדֵין נַעֲבֵיד
But the sons of Gad and Reuben answered and said: Whatsoever the Lord hath spoken to thy servants so will we do.
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 (13 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 32:31 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.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
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.)
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Ramban (Nachmanides)
Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)
Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.