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Numbers 11:24

And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

KJV

Venit igitur Moyses, et narravit populo verba Domini, congregans septuaginta viros de senibus Israël, quos stare fecit circa tabernaculum.

Vulgate

καὶ ἐξῆλθεν Μωυσῆς καὶ ἐλάλησεν πρὸς τὸν λαὸν τὰ ῥήματα Κυρίου, καὶ συνήγαγεν ἑβδομήκοντα ἄνδρας ἀπὸ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτοὺς κύκλῳ τῆς σκηνῆς.

LXX

And Moses went out, and told the people the words of Jehovah: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.

ASV

וַ/יֵּצֵ֣א מֹשֶׁ֗ה וַ/יְדַבֵּר֙ אֶל הָ/עָ֔ם אֵ֖ת דִּבְרֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַ/יֶּאֱסֹ֞ף שִׁבְעִ֥ים אִישׁ֙ מִ/זִּקְנֵ֣י הָ/עָ֔ם וַֽ/יַּעֲמֵ֥ד אֹתָ֖/ם סְבִיבֹ֥ת הָ/אֹֽהֶל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אֹ֣הֶל
'hl
noun · 344×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
זִקְנֵ֣י
zqny
adjective · 179×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יְדַבֵּ֥ר
ydbr
verb · 1134×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יֶּאֱסֹ֥ף
y'sp
verb · 200×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
מֹשֶׁ֔ה
mshh
proper_noun · 750×
סָבִֽיב
sbyb
noun · 334×
עֹמְדִ֖ים
'mdym
verb · 526×
שִׁבְעִ֥ים
shb'ym
adjective · 90×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1541The liturgy of the Church, however, sees in the priesthood of Aaron and the service of the Levites, as in the institution of the seventy elders,11 a prefiguring of the ordained ministry of the New Covenant. Thus in the Latin Rite the Church prays in the consecratory preface of the ordination of bishops: God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by your gracious word you have est…

Cross-references

  • Luke 10:1 — After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
  • Num 11:16 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the co
  • Num 11:26 — But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not ou