Numbers 4:46

כָּֽל־הַפְּקֻדִים אֲשֶׁר פָּקַד מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן וּנְשִׂיאֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת־הַלְוִיִּם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם וּלְבֵית אֲבֹתָֽם׃

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Hebrew

כָּֽל־הַפְּקֻדִ֡ים אֲשֶׁר֩ פָּקַ֨ד מֹשֶׁ֧ה וְאַהֲרֹ֛ן וּנְשִׂיאֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֑ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם וּלְבֵ֥ית אֲבֹתָֽם׃

Greek (Septuagint)

Πάντες οἱ ἐπεσκεμμένοι οὑς ἐπεσκέψατο Μωυσῆς καὶ Ἀαρὼν καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες Ἰσραήλ, τοὺς Λευείτας, κατὰ δήμους καὶ κατ’ οἴκους πατριῶν,

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Omnes qui recensiti sunt de Levitis, et quos recenseri fecit ad nomen Moyses et Aaron, et principes Israël per cognationes et domos patrum suorum,

Spanish

Todos los contados de los levitas que Moisés, Aarón y los líderes de Israel registraron, por sus familias y por las casas de sus padres,

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Todos los contados de los Levitas, que Moisés y Aarón y los jefes de Israel contaron por sus familias, y por las casas de sus padres,

English

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their clans and families all the Levites

✦ What the text says

Summary

This verse states that Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel enrolled all the Levites, organizing the count according to their clans and their ancestral houses. It functions as a summary statement closing the census section of the Levites in Numbers 4.

Key words

pe.ku.Dim ("enrolled", H6485A) — qal passive participle, masculine plural: designates "those enrolled" as a class, the ones who underwent the counting.
pa.Kad ("he enrolled", H6485A) — same root as pe.ku.Dim, but qal perfect: describes the completed act of enrolling, with Moses as explicit grammatical subject.
ne.si.'Ei ("leaders of", H5387A) — masculine plural noun in construct state, linking directly to Yisra'El ("Israel", H3478): "leaders of Israel."
mishpe.cho.Tam ("their clans", H4940) — feminine plural noun in construct with the pronominal suffix -m ("their", H9028), indicating the subdivision by family units.
'a.vo.Tam ("their ancestors", H0001G) — feminine plural construct with suffix -m, forming with Veit ("house of", H1004M) the expression "house of their ancestors."

What the text says

The verse opens with kal- ("all", H3605) in construct state governing ha.pe.ku.Dim ("those enrolled", H6485A), establishing the subject as a collective totality. This participle is developed by a relative clause introduced by 'a.Sher ("whom", H0834A), which specifies who did the enrolling: pa.Kad ("he enrolled", H6485A), in perfect form, with three coordinated subjects joined by the conjunction ve. ("and", H9002): Moses, Aaron, and ne.si.'Ei Yis.ra.'El ("the leaders of Israel", H5387A + H3478).

The direct object of the enrolling is marked by 'et- (H0853, untranslated particle) followed by ha.l.vi.Yim ("the Levites", H3881). The verse closes with two parallel prepositional phrases with le. ("to", H9005): le.mishpe.cho.Tam ("to their clans") and u.le.Veit 'a.vo.Tam ("and to the house of their ancestors"), both in construct state with the suffix -m ("their"). This double construction indicates that the enrollment was organized by two overlapping criteria: clan and ancestral lineage, a structural feature that repeats verbatim in other census passages of Numbers.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders ha.pe.ku.Dim ("those enrolled") with the participle ἐπεσκεμμένοι ("those reviewed/inspected"), from the same root as ἐπεσκέψατο ("he reviewed") for pa.Kad, using a verb of inspection rather than simple counting. The Vulgate splits the opening into two clauses ("qui recensiti sunt... et quos recenseri fecit"), separating "those counted" from "those whom [Moses] caused to be counted," a distinction not present in the Hebrew syntax, where a single relative clause covers the action.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.