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Numberschapter 21

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

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Numbers 21— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 21. 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 39 of 54

חֻקַּת Chukat, Numbers 19:1 to 22:1

Read with it: Judges 11:1 to 11:33.

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

2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 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 21:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

עַל־ʾal-there-H5921כֵּן֙ken-foreH3651יֵֽאָמַ֔רyeamarit is saidH559בְּסֵ֖פֶרbeseferin [the] book ofH5612מִלְחֲמֹ֣תmilchamot[the] wars ofH4421יְהוָ֑הyahwehYahwehH3068אֶת־ʾet-<obj.>H853וָהֵ֣בvahevWahebH2052בְּסוּפָ֔הbesufahin SuphahH5492וְאֶת־veetand <obj.>H853הַנְּחָלִ֖יםhanechalimthe wadisH5158אַרְנֽוֹן׃ʾarnonArnonH769

Ramban on Numbers 21:14

RambanSpain, 1194–1270· Commentary
The simple meaning of [the expression] in the book of the wars of the Eternal. Ibid.: Therefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Eternal.

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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