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Leviticus 24:10

in Leviticus 24

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp:

KJV

And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;

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This verse in Leviticus 24

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, etc. - This is a very obscure account, and is encumbered with many difficulties. 1. It seems strange that a person proceeding from such an illegal mixture should have been incorporated with the Israelites. 2. What the cause of the strife between this mongrel person and the Israelitish man was is not even hinted at.

This site's exposition

the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father

on Leviticus 24:10-11

The book breaks into narrative for the second and last time, around the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father. The text names his mother, Shelomith daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan, but leaves him unnamed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Whose father was an Egyptian - This circumstance seems noted, partly to shew the danger of marriages with persons of wicked principles, and partly by this severity against him who was a stranger by the father, and an Israelite by the mother, to shew that God would not have this sin go unpunished amongst his people, what-soever he was that committed it.
And the son of an Israelitish woman,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The "mixed multitude" [Ex 12:38] that accompanied the Israelites in their exodus from Egypt creates a presumption that marriage connections of the kind described were not infrequent. And it was most natural, in the relative circumstances of the two people, that the father should be an Egyptian and the mother an Israelite.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

AND THE SON OF AN ISRAELITE WOMAN, WHOSE FATHER WAS AN EGYPTIAN, WENT OUT, etc. This means that he went out among the children of Israel, 520 In the Hebrew, the word vayeitzei (and he went out) is not adjoined to the phrase, among the children of Israel.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Leviticus 24:10:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּצֵא֙and he went out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • בֶּן־a son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אִשָּׁ֣הa woman

    ʾishahH802 →781 times

  • יִשְׂרְאֵלִ֔יתIsraelite

    yisreelitH3481 →5 times

  • וְהוּא֙and he

    vehu'H1931 →1879 times

  • בֶּן־[was] a son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אִ֣ישׁa man

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • מִצְרִ֔יEgyptian

    mitzriH4713 →

  • בְּת֖וֹךְin among

    betokhH8432 →418 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַיִּנָּצוּ֙and they struggled together

    vaiyinatzuH5327 →

  • בַּֽמַּחֲנֶ֔הin the camp

    bamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • בֶּ֚ן[the] son of

    benH1121 →4930 times

  • הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִ֔יתthe Israelite [woman]

    haiyisreelitH3481 →5 times

  • וְאִ֖ישׁand [the] man of

    veishH376 →1663 times

  • הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִֽי׃the Israelite[s]

    haiyisreeliH3481 →5 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

7 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 11:4

    Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 10:6

      These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

    • Exodus 12:38

      And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.

    • Psalms 106:14

      They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

    • Psalms 78:18–20

      They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

    • Nehemiah 13:3

      As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.

  • Through

    Exodus 12:38

    And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 11:4

      Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

    • Zechariah 8:23

      This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for…

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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