Numberschapter 32
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Numbers 32— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 32. 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 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
1 row sits beside its verse in the text, on 1 verse 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 land that suits our cattle1
Numbers 32:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Shall your brethren go to war while you sit?6
Numbers 32:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Numbers 32:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
We will go armed before our brethren16
Numbers 32:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Numbers 32:19
FOR OUR INHERITANCE HAS COME TO US — “we have already received it on the eastern side [of the Jordan].” This is Rashi’s language.
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 32:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Numbers 32:27· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The bargain spelled out before witnesses28
Numbers 32:28· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Numbers 32:30· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:31· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:32· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Cities rebuilt east of the Jordan33
Numbers 32:33· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Numbers 32:34· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Numbers 32:42· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
