Numbers 32:33
וַיִּתֵּן לָהֶם׀ מֹשֶׁה לִבְנֵי־גָד וְלִבְנֵי רְאוּבֵן וְלַחֲצִי׀ שֵׁבֶט׀ מְנַשֶּׁה בֶן־יוֹסֵף אֶת־מַמְלֶכֶת סִיחֹן מֶלֶךְ הָֽאֱמֹרִי וְאֶת־מַמְלֶכֶת עוֹג מֶלֶךְ הַבָּשָׁן הָאָרֶץ לְעָרֶיהָ בִּגְבֻלֹת עָרֵי הָאָרֶץ סָבִֽיב׃
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וַיִּתֵּ֣ן לָהֶ֣ם׀ מֹשֶׁ֡ה לִבְנֵי־גָד֩ וְלִבְנֵ֨י רְאוּבֵ֜ן וְלַחֲצִ֣י׀ שֵׁ֣בֶט׀ מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה בֶן־יוֹסֵ֗ף אֶת־מַמְלֶ֙כֶת֙ סִיחֹן֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י וְאֶת־מַמְלֶ֔כֶת ע֖וֹג מֶ֣לֶךְ הַבָּשָׁ֑ן הָאָ֗רֶץ לְעָרֶ֙יהָ֙ בִּגְבֻלֹ֔ת עָרֵ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ סָבִֽיב׃
καὶ ἔδωκεν , τοῖς υἱοῖς Γὰδ καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς Ῥουβὴν καὶ τῷ ἡμίσει φυλῆς Μανασσὴ υἱῶν Ἰωσήφ, τὴν βασιλείαν Σηὼν βασιλέως Ἀμορραίων καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν Ὢγ βασιλέως βασᾶν, τὴν γῆν καὶ τὰς πόλεις σὺν τοῖς ὁρίοις αὐτῆς, πόλεις τῆς γῆς κύκλῳ.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Dedit itaque Moyses filiis Gad et Ruben, et dimidiæ tribui Manasse filii Joseph, regnum Sehon regis Amorrhæi, et regnum Og regis Basan, et terram eorum cum urbibus suis per circuitum.
Así que Moisés les entregó a las tribus de Gad y de Rubén, y a la mitad de la tribu de Manasés hijo de José, el reino de Sehón, rey de los amorreos, y el reino de Og, rey de Basán. Les dio toda la tierra junto con sus ciudades y los territorios de alrededor.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Así les dió Moisés á los hijos de Gad y á los hijos de Rubén, y á la media tribu de Manasés hijo de José, el reino de Sehón rey Amorrheo, y el reino de Og rey de Basán, la tierra con sus ciudades y términos, las ciudades del país alrededor.
So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan — the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.
✦ What the text says
Summary
Numbers 32:33 records that Moses gave to the descendants of Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the two former kingdoms of Sihon and Og, encompassing the land itself, its cities, and the surrounding territories.
Key words
- yiten ("he gave", H5414G) — qal verb in narrative form, indicating a single completed action by the subject that follows (Moses); this is the main verb governing the entire verse.
- mamlekhet ("kingdom of", H4467) — feminine singular construct noun, appearing twice (for Sihon and for Og), linking each king to his realm as the direct object of the giving.
- ben ("son of", H1121A) — masculine singular construct, identifying Manasseh's lineage through Joseph, distinguishing this half-tribe from the other recipients.
- aretz ("land", H0776G) — feminine singular noun, repeated twice in the verse (once absolute, once with the article referring to the surrounding land), specifying what is being distributed beyond the kingdoms themselves.
- sabiv ("all around", H5439I) — common gender singular noun functioning adverbially, marking the outer boundary of the granted territory.
What the text says
The Hebrew sentence structure places the verb yiten ("he gave") first, followed by the indirect object lahem ("to them", H9038) and the subject Mosheh ("Moses", H4872), a common verb-first pattern in Biblical Hebrew narrative. The recipients are then listed using construct chains: bnei-Gad ("descendants of Gad"), bnei Re'uven ("descendants of Reuben"), and chatzi shevet Menasheh ben-Yosef ("half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph") — each construct phrase binding the tribal identity to its ancestral name.
The direct objects of the giving are marked twice with et (H0853, untranslated object marker), introducing mamlekhet Sichon ("kingdom of Sihon") and mamlekhet Og ("kingdom of Og"). After naming the kings, the text adds ha'aretz ("the land") without a connecting particle, followed by le'areiha ("to its cities", H5892B with pronominal suffix) and bigvulot ("with territories", H1367) — a construct chain describing the land's internal components. The verse closes with arei ha'aretz saviv ("cities of the land, all around"), repeating the noun arei ("cities") to frame the boundary of what was granted as encompassing not just the two kingdoms' core territory but the surrounding urban centers.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders chatzi shevet Menasheh ("half the tribe of Manasseh") as τῷ ἡμίσει φυλῆς Μανασσὴ, matching the Hebrew construct structure closely. The Vulgate simplifies the tribal listing as "filiis Gad et Ruben, et dimidiae tribui Manasse," omitting the repeated bnei ("descendants of") found before both Gad and Reuben in the Hebrew, treating them as a single grouped phrase. Where the Hebrew repeats arei ("cities") twice — once with the pronominal suffix (areiha, "its cities") and once in construct with ha'aretz (arei ha'aretz, "cities of the land") — the Vulgate renders this more concisely as "cum urbibus suis per circuitum" ("with their cities all around"), collapsing the two Hebrew phrases into one.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.