King James Version
Numbers 15:2 in the King James Version says “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give un...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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,”
Numbers 15:2 · KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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,
And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: performing: Heb. separating
Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“unto the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“of your habitations”
H4186a seat; figuratively, a site; abstractly, a session; by extension an abode (the place or the time); by implication, population
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which I give”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
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