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Numbers 35:1

in Numbers 35

Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

This verse in Numbers 35

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

on the plains of Moab by the Jordan

on Numbers 35:1-2

Levi, given no land at 18:20, now receives forty-eight towns set inside the other tribes' portions. Genesis 49:7 had said "I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel". Matthew Henry reads the scattering here as a posting through the whole country.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the Lord spake to Moses,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Adonoy spoke to Moshe in the plains of Moav by the Yardein near Yereicho, saying:
Targum · Onkelos Numbers 35:1, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

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

10 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.

  • וַיְדַבֵּ֧רand he spoke

    vaydaberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֖הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • בְּעַֽרְבֹ֣תin [the] plains of

    bearvotH6160 →61 times

  • מוֹאָ֑בMoab

    moavH4124 →181 times

  • עַל־at

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יַרְדֵּ֥ן[the] Jordan

    yardenH3383 →182 times

  • יְרֵח֖וֹof Jericho

    yerechoH3405 →57 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

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

The walk

8 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 31:12

    They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 22:1

      Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Numbers 36:13

    These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 27:34

      These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

    • Leviticus 26:46

      These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

  • Through

    Numbers 22:1

    Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 3:16

      the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…

    • Numbers 21:20

      and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

    • Numbers 34:15

      These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

    • Deuteronomy 1:5

      On the east side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:

    • Deuteronomy 34:8

      The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.