Numberschapter 27
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Numbers 27— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 27. 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 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
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.
The daughters who asked for a portion1
Numbers 27:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Onkelos Numbers 27:10
If he has no brothers, you shall give his hereditary property to his father’s brothers.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]
Numbers 27:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Numbers 27:11
The meaning thereof is that this judgment should be for all [future] generations, and not only for now when they inherited the Land [hence the expression “ a statute, i.e., a permanent one, for all the children of Israel in all future generations”].
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
Climb the mountain and look at the land12
Numbers 27:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hands laid on Joshua before them all15
Numbers 27:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 27:23· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible