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Numberschapter 10

36 verses · Moses, by tradition · 15th to 13th century BC · The Law

Original Language

Numbers 10— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 10. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.

The reading

Weekly portion 36 of 54

בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ Beha'alotcha, Numbers 8:1 to 12:16

Read with it: Zechariah 2:14 to 4:7.

The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →

Where the rabbis cite this chapter

4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.

How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.

The cloud lifts and Israel marches11

Numbers 10:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וַיְהִ֞יvayhiand it wasH1961בַּשָּׁנָ֧הbashanahin the yearH8141הַשֵּׁנִ֛יתhashenit<the> secondH8145בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁbachodeshin the monthH2320הַשֵּׁנִ֖יhasheni<the> secondH8145בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣יםbeesrimon [day] twentyH6242בַּחֹ֑דֶשׁbachodeshin the monthH2320נַעֲלָה֙naalahit was taken upH5927הֶֽעָנָ֔ןheananthe cloudH6051מֵעַ֖לmealfrom overH5921מִשְׁכַּ֥ןmishkan[the] tabernacle ofH4908הָעֵדֻֽת׃haedutthe testimonyH5715

Rashi on Numbers 10:11

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
בחדש השני [IN THE SECOND YEAR] IN THE SECOND MONTH [THE CLOUD DEPARTED] — Consequently you must say that they spent at Choreb twelve months less ten days, since on the New Moon of Sivan (the third month) they encamped there (Exodus:1) and did not journey until the twentieth of Eyar of the following year.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

Numbers 10:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וַיִּסְע֧וּvaiyisuand they set outH5265בְנֵֽי־venei-[the] people ofH1121יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לyisraelIsraelH3478לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖םlemaseihemto journeyings theirH4550מִמִּדְבַּ֣רmimidbarfrom [the] wilderness ofH4057סִינָ֑יsinaiSinaiH5514וַיִּשְׁכֹּ֥ןvaiyishkonand it settled downH7931הֶעָנָ֖ןheananthe cloudH6051בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarin [the] wilderness ofH4057פָּארָֽן׃paranParanH6290

Rashi on Numbers 10:12

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
למסעיהם means, in accordance with the regulations set forth for the journeys of their divisions — which should be the first to set out and which the last.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

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