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Numberschapter 1

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

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Numbers 1— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 1. 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 34 of 54

בְּמִדְבַּר Bamidbar, Numbers 1:1 to 4:20

Read with it: Hosea 2:1 to 2:22.

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.

Number the men of war; twelve princes named1

Numbers 1:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וַיְדַבֵּ֨רvaydaberand he spokeH1696יְהוָ֧הyahwehYahwehH3068אֶל־ʾel-toH413מֹשֶׁ֛הmoshehMosesH4872בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarin [the] wilderness ofH4057סִינַ֖יsinaiSinaiH5514בְּאֹ֣הֶלbeohelin [the] tent ofH168מוֹעֵ֑דmoedmeetingH4150בְּאֶחָד֩beechadon [day] oneH259לַחֹ֨דֶשׁlachodeshof the monthH2320הַשֵּׁנִ֜יhasheni<the> secondH8145בַּשָּׁנָ֣הbashanahin the yearH8141הַשֵּׁנִ֗יתhashenit<the> secondH8145לְצֵאתָ֛םletzetamof going out theirH3318מֵאֶ֥רֶץmeeretzfrom [the] land ofH776מִצְרַ֖יִםmitzrayimEgyptH4714לֵאמֹֽר׃lemor<to> sayingH559

Ramban on Numbers 1:1

RambanSpain, 1194–1270· Commentary
AND THE ETERNAL SPOKE UNTO MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI, IN THE TENT OF MEETING. Because He had interrupted with the commandments about the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee, of which He said that they were spoken in Mount Sinai. Leviticus:1.

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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