the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.
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the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.
Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
are the land that Yahweh struck before the face of the congregation of Israel. It is a land of livestock, and livestock belongs to your servants.”
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.
which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, are suitable for livestock—and your servants have livestock.”
which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, are suitable for livestock—and your servants have livestock.”
Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
the land which Jehovah smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and thy servants have cattle.
the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.
Which countrey the Lord smote before the Congregation of Israel, is a lande meete for cattell, and thy seruants haue cattell:
The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle:
the land which Jehovah hath smitten before the company of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'
the land which YHWH has struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”
These are the lands that Yahweh attacked before the community of Israel, and they are good places for livestock. We, your servants, have a lot of livestock.”
are the land that Yahweh struck before the face of the congregation of Israel. It is a land of livestock, and livestock belongs to your servants.”
the country that Jehovah smote before the assembly of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle;
the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”
Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
which the Lord conquered in full view of the Israelites, are well-suited for the livestock that we your servants own.”
The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.
the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר הִכָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לִפְנֵי֙ עֲדַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶ֥רֶץ מִקְנֶ֖ה הִ֑וא וְלַֽעֲבָדֶ֖יךָ מִקְנֶֽה
the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὁ γῆ ὅς παραδίδωμι κύριος ἐνώπιον ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ γῆ κτηνοτρόφος εἰμί καί ὁ παῖς σύ κτῆνος ὑποἄρχω
the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and your servants have cattle.
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.
אַרְעָא דִי מְחָא יְיָ יַת יָתְבָהָא קֳדָם כְּנִשְׁתָּא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל אֲרַע כָּשְׁרָא לְבֵית בְּעִיר הִיא וּלְעַבְדָיךְ אִית בְּעִיר
(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.
אַרְעָא דְכָבַשׁ יְיָ וּמְחָא יַתְבָהָא קֳדָם כְּנִישְׁתָּא דְיִשְרָאֵל אֲרַע כָּשַׁר לְבֵית בְּעִיר הִיא וּלְעַבְדָךְ אִית בְּעִיר
the land which the Lord hath subdued, and whose inhabitants he hath smitten before the congregation of Israel, is a land suitable for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.
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 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is miqneh (“cattle”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 32:4 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — 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.
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Door43 World Missions Community
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