Order Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the fire pans—for they have become sacred—from among the charred remains; and scatter the coals abroad.
Meaning of parts of verse uncertain. [Remove] the fire pans of those who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and let them be made into hammered sheets as plating for the altar—for once they have been used for offering to יהוה, they have become sacred—and let them serve as a warning to the people of Israel.
Eleazar the priest took the copper fire pans which had been used for offering by those who died in the fire; and they were hammered into plating for the altar,
as יהוה had ordered him through Moses. It was to be a reminder to the Israelites, so that no outsider—one not of Aaron’s offspring—should presume to offer incense before יהוה and suffer the fate of Korah and his band.
But as the community gathered against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the Tent of Meeting; the cloud had covered it and the Presence of יהוה appeared.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
בהקהל
142
העדה
84
עלמשה
445
ועלאהרן
362
ויפנו
152
אלאהל
67
מועד
120
והנה
66
כסהו
91
הענן
175
וירא
217
כבוד
32
יהוה
26
Numbers 17:8
Gematria: 1013
ויבאמשהואהרןאלפניאהלמועדס
When Moses and Aaron reached the Tent of Meeting,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבא
19
משה
345
ואהרן
262
אלפני
171
אהל
36
מועדס
180
Numbers 17:9
Gematria: 895
וידבריהוהאלמשהלאמר
יהוה spoke to Moses, saying,
Word-by-Word Analysis
וידבר
222
יהוה
26
אלמשה
376
לאמר
271
Numbers 17:10
Gematria: 2427
הרמומתוךהעדההזאתואכלהאתםכרגעויפלועלפניהם
“Remove yourselves from this community, that I may annihilate them in an instant.” They fell on their faces.
Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the fire pan, and put on it fire from the altar. Add incense and take it quickly to the community and make expiation for them. For wrath has gone forth from יהוה: the plague has begun!”
Aaron took it, as Moses had ordered, and ran to the midst of the congregation, where the plague had begun among the people. He put on the incense and made expiation for the people;
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקח
124
אהרן
256
כאשר
521
דבר
206
משה
345
וירץ
306
אלתוך
457
הקהל
140
והנה
66
החל
43
הנגף
138
בעם
112
ויתן
466
אתהקטרת
1115
ויכפר
316
עלהעם
215
Numbers 17:13
Gematria: 1727
ויעמדביןהמתיםוביןהחייםותעצרהמגפה
he stood between the dead and the living until the plague was checked.
Speak to the Israelite people and take from them—from the chieftains of their ancestral houses of their ancestral houses I.e., of their tribes. —one staff for each chieftain of an ancestral house: twelve staffs in all. Inscribe each one’s name on his staff,
Word-by-Word Analysis
דבר
206
אלבני
93
ישראל
541
וקח
114
מאתם
481
מטה
54
מטה
54
לבית
442
אב
3
מאת
441
כלנשיאהם
456
לבית
442
אבתם
443
שנים
400
עשר
570
מטות
455
איש
311
אתשמו
747
תכתב
822
עלמטהו
160
Numbers 17:18
Gematria: 3514
ואתשםאהרןתכתבעלמטהלויכימטהאחדלראשביתאבותם
there being one staff for each head of an ancestral house; also inscribe Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואת
407
שם
340
אהרן
256
תכתב
822
עלמטה
154
לוי
46
כי
30
מטה
54
אחד
13
לראש
531
בית
412
אבותם
449
Numbers 17:19
Gematria: 2339
והנחתםבאהלמועדלפניהעדותאשראועדלכםשמה
Deposit them in the Tent of Meeting before the Pact, where I meet with you.
The staff of the candidate candidate See note at 16.7. whom I choose shall sprout, and I will rid I will rid Meaning of Heb. wa-hashikkothi uncertain. Myself of the incessant mutterings of the Israelites against you.
Moses spoke thus to the Israelites. Their chieftains gave him a staff for each chieftain of an ancestral house, twelve staffs in all; among these staffs was that of Aaron.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וידבר
222
משה
345
אלבני
93
ישראל
541
ויתנו
472
אליוכלנשיאיהם
513
מטה
54
לנשיא
391
אחד
13
מטה
54
לנשיא
391
אחד
13
לבית
442
אבתם
443
שנים
400
עשר
570
מטות
455
ומטה
60
אהרן
256
בתוך
428
מטותם
495
Numbers 17:22
Gematria: 1987
וינחמשהאתהמטתלפנייהוהבאהלהעדת
Moses deposited the staffs before יהוה, in the Tent of the Pact.
The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Pact, and there the staff of Aaron of the house of Levi had sprouted: it had brought forth sprouts, produced blossoms, and borne almonds.
יהוה said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back before the Pact, to be kept as a lesson to rebels, so that their mutterings against Me may cease, lest they die.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יהוה
26
אלמשה
376
השב
307
אתמטה
455
אהרן
256
לפני
170
העדות
485
למשמרת
1010
לאות
437
לבנימרי
342
ותכל
456
תלונתם
926
מעלי
150
ולא
37
ימתו
456
Numbers 17:26
Gematria: 2311
ויעשמשהכאשרצוהיהוהאתוכןעשהפ
This Moses did; just as יהוה had commanded him, so he did.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויעש
386
משה
345
כאשר
521
צוה
101
יהוה
26
אתו
407
כן
70
עשהפ
455
Numbers 17:27
Gematria: 1935
ויאמרובניישראלאלמשהלאמרהןגוענואבדנוכלנואבדנו
But the Israelites said to Moses, “Lo, we perish! We are lost, all of us lost!
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמרו
263
בני
62
ישראל
541
אלמשה
376
לאמר
271
הן
55
גוענו
135
אבדנו
63
כלנו
106
אבדנו
63
Numbers 17:28
Gematria: 2298
כלהקרבהקרבאלמשכןיהוהימותהאםתמנולגועס
Everyone who so much as ventures near יהוה’s Tabernacle must die. Alas, we are doomed to perish!”