Passage Research
Numbers 15 — Sermon Preparation
Supplementary offering laws anticipate life in Canaan; a man who gathers wood on the Sabbath is stoned; tassels on garments remind Israel to obey God's commands. Below is a research summary for Numbers 15, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 41
- verses
- 511 / 145
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 11
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Numbers 15 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁגָגָה | shᵉgâgâh | H7684 | 7 | mistake, transgression |
| אֶחָד | ʼechâd | H259 | 11 | united, one |
| הִין | hîyn | H1969 | 6 | hin |
| גֵּר | gêr | H1616 | 7 | guest, foreigner |
| קָרַב | qârab | H7126 | 8 | approach, bring near |
| נִיחוֹחַ | nîychôwach | H5207 | 6 | restful, pleasant |
| עֵדָה | ʻêdâh | H5712 | 7 | assemblage, concourse |
How preachers through history handled this text
11 public-domain excerpts on Numbers 15, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Full instructions are given about the meat-offerings and drink-offerings. The beginning of this law is very encouraging, When ye come into the land of your habitation which I give unto you. This was a plain intimation that God would secure the promised land to their seed. It was requisite, since the sacrifices of acknowledgment were intended as the food of God's table, that there should be a constant supply of bread, oil, and wine, whatever the flesh-meat was. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Numbers 15:1–21 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt— Num 15:41
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