Numbers 1:51

Webster's Bible (1833)

When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבִנְסֹ֣עַ הַמִּשְׁכָּ֗ן יוֹרִ֤ידוּ אֹתוֹ֙ הַלְוִיִּ֔ם וּבַחֲנֹת֙ הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן יָקִ֥ימוּ אֹת֖וֹ הַלְוִיִּ֑ם וְהַזָּ֥ר הַקָּרֵ֖ב יוּמָֽת׃

Transliteration

ūḇinsōaʿ hammiškan yôrîḏū ʾōṯô haləwiyyim ūḇaḥănōṯ hammiškan yāqîmū ʾōṯô haləwiyyim wəhazzār haqqārēḇ yūmāṯ

Grammar Details

• *ūḇinsōaʿ*: conjunction *wə* + preposition *bə* + Qal infinitive construct - and when setting out
• *hammiškan*: definite article *ha* + noun, masculine singular - the tabernacle
• *yôrîḏū*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they shall take down
• *ʾōṯô*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - it
• *haləwiyyim*: definite article *ha* + proper name, masculine plural - the Levites
• *ūḇaḥănōṯ*: conjunction *wə* + preposition *bə* + Qal infinitive construct - and when encamping
• *yāqîmū*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they shall set up
• *wəhazzār*: conjunction *wə* + definite article *ha* + noun, masculine singular - and the stranger/outsider
• *haqqārēḇ*: definite article *ha* + Qal participle, masculine singular - the one who approaches
• *yūmāṯ*: Hophal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - shall be put to death

Word Meanings

• *binsōaʿ*: when setting out/when journeying/when departing
• *yôrîḏū*: take down/lower/dismantle
• *baḥănōṯ*: when encamping/when stopping/when setting up camp
• *yāqîmū*: set up/erect/establish
• *zār*: stranger/unauthorized person/outsider
• *qārēḇ*: approaches/comes near/intrudes
• *yūmāṯ*: shall be put to death/shall be killed

Referenced Verses

• Num 3:38 : 38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
• Num 3:10 : 10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."
• Num 18:22 : 22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
• 1 Sam 6:19 : 19 He struck of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
• 2 Sam 6:7 : 7 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
• Lev 22:10-13 : 10 "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. 11 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread. 12 If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things. 13 But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
• Num 4:1-9 : 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 "Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses, 3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. 4 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things. 5 When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it, 6 and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. 7 On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. 8 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. 9 They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. 10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. 11 On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. 12 They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame. 13 They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. 14 They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles. 15 "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting. 16 "The charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings." 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 18 "Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; 19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden; 20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die." 21 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 22 "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families; 23 from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. 24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens: 25 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, 26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. Therein shall they serve. 27 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint to them in charge all their burden. 28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 29 "As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses; 30 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shall you number them, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting. 31 This is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, 32 and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden. 33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."
• Num 10:11 : 11 It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony.
• Num 10:17-21 : 17 The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tent, set forward. 18 The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. 19 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 20 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the others] did set up the tent against their coming.
• Num 16:40 : 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.