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Numberschapter 13

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

Original Language

Numbers 13— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 13. 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 37 of 54

שְׁלַח־לְךָ Sh'lach, Numbers 13:1 to 15:41

Read with it: Joshua 2:1 to 2:24.

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

3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 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.

Numbers 13:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וּמָ֣הumahand what?H4100הָאָ֗רֶץhaaretz[is] the landH776אֲשֶׁר־ʾasher-whichH834הוּא֙hu'itH1931יֹשֵׁ֣בyoshev[is] dwellingH3427בָּ֔הּbahin <the> itהֲטוֹבָ֥הhatovah¿ goodH2896הִ֖ואhi'[is] itH1931אִם־ʾim-or?H518רָעָ֑הraahbadH7451וּמָ֣הumahand what?H4100הֶֽעָרִ֗יםhearim[are] the citiesH5892אֲשֶׁר־ʾasher-whichH834הוּא֙hu'itH1931יוֹשֵׁ֣בyoshev[is] dwellingH3427בָּהֵ֔נָּהbahenahin themהַבְּמַֽחֲנִ֖יםhabemachanim¿ in campsH4264אִ֥םʾimor?H518בְּמִבְצָרִֽים׃bemivtzarimin fortressesH4013

Ramban on Numbers 13:19

RambanSpain, 1194–1270· Commentary
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra commented [that the meaning thereof is that they are to see] “if the Land is good, namely that its air is good, and its waters are good.” Then Moses continued, whether it is fat, 24 Further, Verse. meaning “capable of producing wheat” and many fruits.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

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