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title: Exodus 40:12 — And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tent of… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water. Who acts: thou. Exodus 40:12 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 40:12 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** bring, wash · **To what, where:** Aaron

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This is Exodus 40:12 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — thou — and what happens in the verse to Aaron, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וְהִקְרַבְתָּ֤ אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן֙ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֔יו אֶל־פֶּ֖תַח אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד וְרָחַצְתָּ֥ אֹתָ֖ם בַּמָּֽיִם׃

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[And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1239/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:EXO:1186
# text = וְהִקְרַבְתָּ֤ אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן֙ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֔יו אֶל־פֶּ֖תַח אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד וְרָחַצְתָּ֥ אֹתָ֖ם בַּמָּֽיִם׃
# verse = EXO.40.12
1-2	וְהִקְרַבְתָּ֤	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_40:12!1|MId=o020400120011|Strong=2050b
2	הִקְרַבְתָּ֤	קָרַב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2	0	root	_	Gloss=you.will.bring.near|Ref=EXO_40:12!1|MId=o020400120012|Strong=7126|Frame=AA:020400010041;A0:020400120031;020400120051;|Type=weqatal
3	אֶֽת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=EXO_40:12!2|MId=o020400120021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
4	אַהֲרֹן֙	אַהֲרֹן	PROPN	_	_	2	obj	_	Gloss=Aaron|Ref=EXO_40:12!3|MId=o020400120031|Strong=0175
5-6	וְאֶת־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	7	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_40:12!4|MId=o020400120041|Strong=2050b
6	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=EXO_40:12!4|MId=o020400120042|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
7-8	בָּנָ֔יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	בָּנָ֔י	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Gloss=sons|Ref=EXO_40:12!5|MId=o020400120051|Strong=1121
8	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=EXO_40:12!5|MId=o020400120052|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
9	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_40:12!6|MId=o020400120061|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No
10	פֶּ֖תַח	פֶּתַח	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=the.entrance|Ref=EXO_40:12!7|MId=o020400120071|Strong=6607
11	אֹ֣הֶל	אֹהֶל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.the.tent|Ref=EXO_40:12!8|MId=o020400120081|Strong=0168
12	מוֹעֵ֑ד	מוֹעֵד	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.meeting|Ref=EXO_40:12!9|MId=o020400120091|Strong=4150
13-14	וְרָחַצְתָּ֥	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	14	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_40:12!10|MId=o020400120101|Strong=2050b
14	רָחַצְתָּ֥	רָחַץ	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2	2	conj	_	Gloss=you.will.wash|Ref=EXO_40:12!10|MId=o020400120102|Strong=7364|Frame=A0:020400010041;A1:020400120112;|Type=weqatal
15-16	אֹתָ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=|Ref=EXO_40:12!11|MId=o020400120111|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
16	ָ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	Gloss=them|Ref=EXO_40:12!11|MId=o020400120112|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
17-19	בַּמָּֽיִם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=with|Ref=EXO_40:12!12|MId=o020400120121|Strong=0871a
18	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	19	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=EXO_40:12!12|MId=o020400120121ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
19	מָּֽיִם	מַיִם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Gloss=water|Ref=EXO_40:12!12|MId=o020400120122|Strong=4325
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	19	punct	_	Ref=EXO_40:12!12
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no
- indirect: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| הִקְרַבְתָּ *you will bring near* | weqatal · hiphil | אַהֲרֹן *Aaron* + בָּנָי *sons* |  |  |  |
| רָחַצְתָּ *you will wash* | weqatal · qal |  | ָם *them* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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וּתְקָרֵב יָת אַהֲרֹן וְיָת בְּנוֹהִי לִתְרַע מַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא וְתַסְחֵי יָתְהוֹן בְּמַיָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1239/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:EXO:1186`.

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