וְנָתְנ֤וּ אֹתָהּ֙ וְאֶת כָּל כֵּלֶ֔יהָ אֶל מִכְסֵ֖ה ע֣וֹר תָּ֑חַשׁ וְנָתְנ֖וּ עַל הַמּֽוֹט
They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 4:10
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 4:10 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
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King James Version Public Domain
And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And they shall put it and all its vessels into a covering of skin of a porpoise, and they shall put on the carrying pole.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then they shall wrap it and all its utensils inside a covering of fine leather and put it on the carrying frame.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then they shall wrap it and all its utensils inside a covering of fine leather and put it on the carrying frame.
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King James Version Public Domain
And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon the frame.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon the frame.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
So they shall put it, and all the instruments thereof in a couering of badgers skinnes, and put it vpon the barres.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in the bars.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put `it' on the bar.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and they have put it and all its vessels into a covering of tachash skin, and have put [it] on the bar.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
They must put the lampstand and all its accessories into a covering of sea cow skins, and they must put it on a carrying frame.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And they shall put it and all its vessels into a covering of skin of a porpoise, and they shall put on the carrying pole.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and they shall put it and all the utensils thereof within a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put it upon a pole.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And they shall put it, and all its vessels, within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Then have them wrap it together with all its utensils inside a fine leather covering and place it on the carrying frame.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon a bar.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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הַמּֽוֹט
môwṭ
H4132
“the · pole”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
a shaking, wavering, pole, bar of yoke
- a shaking, tottering
- pole, bar (for carrying)
- bar of yoke
- וְנָתְנ֤וּ nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
- אֹתָהּ֙ ʼêth H853 “- · her” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- כֵּלֶ֔יהָ kᵉlîy H3627 “vessels · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- מִכְסֵ֖ה mikçeh H4372 “covering of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- ע֣וֹר ʻôwr H5785 “skin of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- תָּ֑חַשׁ tachash H8476 “badger” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְנָתְנ֖וּ nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- הַמּֽוֹט môwṭ H4132 “the · pole” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- words
- 10
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַמּֽוֹט pole H4132 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- הַמּֽוֹט pole H4132
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַמּֽוֹט pole H4132 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 6 nouns
- 2 prepositions
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וְנָתְנ֤וּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
- וְנָתְנ֖וּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וְנָתְנ֤וּ to give H5414 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
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 12 Hebrew tokens and 17 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.
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Numbers 4:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Numbers 4:6 and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.
- Numbers 4:12 They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ἐνβάλλω αὐτός καί πᾶς ὁ σκεῦος αὐτός εἰς κάλυμμα δερμάτινος ὑακίνθινος καί ἐπιτίθημι αὐτός ἐπί ἀναφορεύς
And they shall put it, and all its vessels, into a blue skin cover; and they shall put it on bearers.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, John Gill's Exposition discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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 →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיִתְּנוּן יָתָהּ וְיָת כָּל מָנָהָא לְחוֹפָאָה דִמְשַׁךְ סַסְגוֹנָא וְיִתְּנוּן עַל אֲרִיחָא
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיִתְּנוּן יָתָהּ וְיַת כָּל מְנָהָא לְחוֹפָאָה דִמְשַׁךְ סַסְגוֹנָא וְיִתְּנוּן עַל אַסְלָא
And they shall put it and all its vessels in a covering of hyacinthine skin, and place it upon a rest.
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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is môwṭ (“pole”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “pole” (môwṭ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This is the first place “pole” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Numbers 4:12, which shares the word «pole», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “to give” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וְנָתְנ֤וּ» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
- “to give” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 4:10 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — 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.
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).
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.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword 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.