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Numberschapter 25

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Numbers 25— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 25. 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 40 of 54

בָּלָק Balak, Numbers 22:2 to 25:9

Read with it: Micah 5:6 to 6:8.

Weekly portion 41 of 54

פִּינְחָס Pinchas, Numbers 25:10 to 30:1

Read with it: 1 Kings 18:46 to 19:21.

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 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.

Moab's daughters and the god of Peor1

Numbers 25:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וַיֵּ֥שֶׁבvaiyeshevand it remainedH3427יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לyisraelIsraelH3478בַּשִּׁטִּ֑יםbashitimin <the> ShittimH7851וַיָּ֣חֶלvaiyacheland it beganH2490הָעָ֔םhaamthe peopleH5971לִזְנ֖וֹתliznotto commit fornicationH2181אֶל־ʾel-intoH413בְּנ֥וֹתbenot[the] daughters ofH1323מוֹאָֽב׃moavMoabH4124

Ramban on Numbers 25:1

RambanSpain, 1194–1270· Commentary
AND ISRAEL ABODE IN SHITTIM, AND THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO COMMIT HARLOTRY WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF MOAB — “because of the advice of Balaam, as is related in [the Chapter of] Cheilek.” 228 Literally: “Portion” — “All Israel have ‘a portion’ in the World to Come.” Sanhedrin 106a.

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

Onkelos Numbers 25:1

Targum
Yisroel settled in Shittim and the people [of Yisroel] began acting promiscuously with the daughters of Moav.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

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