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Numberschapter 2

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

Original Language

Numbers 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 2. 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.

Numbers 2:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

אִ֣ישׁʾisheveryoneH376עַל־ʾal-atH5921דִּגְל֤וֹdiglostandard hisH1714בְאֹתֹת֙veototwith [the] signsH226לְבֵ֣יתleveitof [the] house ofH1004אֲבֹתָ֔םʾavotamancestors theirH1יַחֲנ֖וּyachanuthey will encampH2583בְּנֵ֣יbenei[the] people ofH1121יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לyisraelIsraelH3478מִנֶּ֕גֶדminegedfrom beforeH5048סָבִ֥יבsavivaroundH5439לְאֹֽהֶל־leohel-<to> [the] tent ofH168מוֹעֵ֖דmoedmeetingH4150יַחֲנֽוּ׃yachanuthey will encampH2583

Ramban on Numbers 2:2

RambanSpain, 1194–1270· Commentary
EVERY MAN SHALL ENCAMP BY HIS OWN STANDARD, WITH THE SIGNS OF THEIR FATHER’S HOUSE. “Each standard was to have a colored cloth hanging on it, the color of one being unlike the color of another.

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

Numbers 2:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וּצְבָא֖וֹutzevaoand military group hisH6635וּפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑םufekudeihemand enrolled [men] theirH6485אַרְבָּעָ֧הʾarbaah[were] fourH702וְשִׁבְעִ֛יםveshivimand seventyH7657אֶ֖לֶףʾelefthousandH505וְשֵׁ֥שׁvesheshand sixH8337מֵאֽוֹת׃meothundred<s>H3967

Ramban on Numbers 2:4

RambanSpain, 1194–1270· Commentary
The meaning thereof, as well as of all that were numbered of the camp of Judah, 132 Further, Verse.

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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