Numbers 15:2

Numbers 15:2 in other versions

• King James Version (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,
• New International Version (NIV)“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘After you enter the land I am giving you as a home
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you,

Context of Numbers 15:2

1Then the Lord told Moses, “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. “When you finally settle in the land I am giving you, 3you will offer special gifts as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. These gifts may take the form of a burnt offering, a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, a voluntary offering, or an offering at any of your annual festivals, and they may be taken from your herds of cattle or your flocks of sheep and goats. 4When you present these offerings, you must also give the Lord a grain offering of two quarts of choice flour mixed with one quart of olive oil.

Numbers 15:2 word by word

דַּבֵּר֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֲלֵהֶ֑ם כִּ֣י תָבֹ֗אוּ אֶל־אֶ֙רֶץ֙ מוֹשְׁבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲנִ֖י נֹתֵ֥ן לָכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Speakדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• unto the childrenבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
• of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• and sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• unto them, When ye be comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• into the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• of your habitationsמוֹשָׁבmôshâb môshâb · seatH4186
• which I giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414

Cross-references for Numbers 15:2

• Numbers 15:18“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. “When you arrive in the land where I am taking you,
• Leviticus 14:34“When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as your own possession, I may contaminate some of the houses in your land with mildew.
• Leviticus 23:10“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you enter the land I am giving you and you harvest its first crops, bring the priest a bundle of grain from the first cutting of your grain harvest.
• Leviticus 25:2“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you have entered the land I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath rest before the Lord every seventh year.
• Deuteronomy 7:1“When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. These seven nations are greater and more numerous than you.
• Deuteronomy 12:1“These are the decrees and regulations you must be careful to obey when you live in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. You must obey them as long as you live.

Commentaries on Numbers 15:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2When 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2To 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-3These instructions suggest that the Israelites would eventually live in the promised land (14:31; 15:18).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-411-2. The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel--Some infer from Nu 15:23 that the date of this communication must be fixed towards the close of the wanderings in the wilderness; and, also, that all the sacrifices prescribed in the law were to be offered only after the settlement in Canaan.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Numbers 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings