Numbers 15:2
in Numbers 15“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
KJV
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
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This verse in Numbers 15
Commentary
7 notes on this verseWhen ye be come into the land - Some learned men are of opinion that several offerings prescribed by the law were not intended to be made in the wilderness, but in the promised land; the former not affording those conveniences which were necessary to the complete observance of the Divine worship in this and several other respects.
This site's exposition
Then the LORD said to Moses
on Numbers 15:1-5
The sentence at Kadesh has just fallen, and the next words are After you enter the land. Clarke reads the offerings as written for settled fields and vineyards, since flour, oil and wine come from farmed ground.
This site's exposition
After you enter the land that I am giving you
These laws come straight after the sentence of forty years at 14:33, and they open by assuming Israel will enter the land. The promise still stands for the children. Adam Clarke reports that several offerings in the law were meant for Canaan, where their full observance first became possible.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Concerning dough for heave-offerings, ver. 17-21. Sacrifices for sins of ignorance, ver. 22-29. Concerning presumptuous sinners, ver. 30,
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The meat-offerings were of two sorts; some were offered alone, and we have the law concerning those, Lev. ii. Others were added to the burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and constantly attended them, and about these direction is here given. It was requisite, since the sacrifices of acknowledgment (specified in
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
To the Israelites of the younger generation is conveyed the hope that the nation should yet enter into the land of promise. The ordinances that follow are more likely to have been addressed to adults than to children; and we may therefore assume that at the date of their delivery the new generation was growing up, and the period of wandering drawing toward its close. During that period the meat-offerings and drink-offerings prescribed by the Law had been probably intermitted by reason of the scanty supply of grain and wine in the wilderness. The command therefore to provide such offerings was a pledge to Israel that it should possess the land which was to furnish the wherewithal for them.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
After He had assured the children [of those who had left Egypt] that they would come into the Land, 176 Above,:31. He completed [telling] them the laws of the offerings, and that they should bring the drink-offerings when they enter the Land.
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
15 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| דַּבֵּר֙ | daber | speak | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ | veamarta | and you will say | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲלֵהֶ֑ם | ʾalehem | to them | H413 → | 5510 times |
| כִּ֣י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| תָבֹ֗אוּ | tavou | you will go | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | into | H413 → | 5510 times |
| אֶ֙רֶץ֙ | ʾeretz | [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מוֹשְׁבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם | moshevoteikhem | dwelling places your | H4186 → | 44 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| אֲנִ֖י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| נֹתֵ֥ן | noten | [am] about to give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| לָכֶֽם׃ | lakhem | to <the> you |
דַּבֵּר֙speak
daberH1696 →1141 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
וְאָמַרְתָּ֖and you will say
veamartaH559 →5305 times
אֲלֵהֶ֑םto them
ʾalehemH413 →5510 times
כִּ֣יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
תָבֹ֗אוּyou will go
tavouH935 →2568 times
אֶל־into
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
אֶ֙רֶץ֙[the] land of
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
מוֹשְׁבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םdwelling places your
moshevoteikhemH4186 →44 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
אֲנִ֖יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
נֹתֵ֥ן[am] about to give
notenH5414 →2011 times
לָכֶֽם׃to <the> you
lakhem
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Leviticus 23:10“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of…
it leads to
- Exodus 34:26
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
- Exodus 23:19
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Exodus 34:26
Through
Leviticus 25:2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 36:21
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
- Exodus 23:10
For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,
- Leviticus 26:34–35
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21
Through
Deuteronomy 12:9For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 8:56
“Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses.
- Psalms 95:11
So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
- 1 Kings 8:56
Through
Leviticus 14:34“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land,
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:49
“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
- Deuteronomy 32:49
Where this verse is studied
About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.