Numberschapter 30
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Numbers 30— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 30. 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.
Weekly portion 42 of 54
מַּטּוֹת Matot, Numbers 30:2 to 32:42
Read with it: Jeremiah 1:1 to 2:3.
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
5 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 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.
A man must not break his word1
Numbers 30:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Numbers 30:1
AND MOSES TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL [ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE ETERNAL COMMANDED MOSES]. “‘This is [stated] in order to separate the subject [of the offerings from that of the following chapter, dealing with vows and oaths].’ These are the words of Rabbi Yishmael.
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 30:1
Moshe spoke to Bnei Yisroel all that Adonoy had commanded him.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]
Numbers 30:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A daughter still in her father's house3
Numbers 30:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A husband may confirm a vow or annul it6
Numbers 30:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Onkelos Numbers 30:10
The vow of a widow or a divorced woman—everything she prohibited for herself shall remain incumbent upon her.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]
Numbers 30:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Numbers 30:14
EVERY VOW, AND EVERY BINDING OATH TO AFFLICT THE SOUL, [HER HUSBAND MAY ESTABLISH IT, AND HER HUSBAND MAY MAKE IT VOID]. “Since He had said [in the preceding verses] that a husband may annul [his wife’s vows], I might think that this includes all her vows!
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 30:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 30:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Numbers 30:16
[BUT IF HE SHALL MAKE THEM NULL AFTER THAT HE HATH HEARD THEM], THEN HE SHALL BEAR HER INIQUITY — “he [the husband] takes her place.
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