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title: Numbers 3:13 — for all the first-born are Mine: on the day that I smote all the fir… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: for all the first-born are Mine: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto Me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast, Mine they shall be: I am the LORD.' Who acts: first born, I, Levites. Numbers 3:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos,
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# Numbers 3:13 בְּמִדְבַּר

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**Who acts:** first born, I, Levites · **What happens:** be, smite, hallow · **To what, where:** Mine, day, land, first born, Israel, LORD

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This is Numbers 3:13 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 — first born, I, Levites — and what happens in the verse to Mine, day, land, first born, Israel, LORD, 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 36 chapters of Numbers on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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כִּ֣י לִי֮ כָּל־בְּכוֹר֒ בְּיוֹם֩ הַכֹּתִ֨י כָל־בְּכ֜וֹר בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֗יִם הִקְדַּ֨שְׁתִּי לִ֤י כָל־בְּכוֹר֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מֵאָדָ֖ם עַד־בְּהֵמָ֑ה לִ֥י יִהְי֖וּ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ס

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[for all the first-born are Mine: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto Me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast, Mine they shall be: I am the LORD.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.100/)

## 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:NUM:100
# text = כִּ֣י לִי֮ כָּל־בְּכוֹר֒ בְּיוֹם֩ הַכֹּתִ֨י כָל־בְּכ֜וֹר בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֗יִם הִקְדַּ֨שְׁתִּי לִ֤י כָל־בְּכוֹר֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מֵאָדָ֖ם עַד־בְּהֵמָ֑ה לִ֥י יִהְי֖וּ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ס
# verse = NUM.3.13
1	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	3	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=NUM_3:13!1|MId=o040030130011|Strong=3588
2-3	לִי֮	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
2	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	3	case	_	Gloss=[belongs].to|Ref=NUM_3:13!2|MId=o040030130021|Strong=3807a
3	ִי֮	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	Gloss=me|Ref=NUM_3:13!2|MId=o040030130022|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
4	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Gloss=every|Ref=NUM_3:13!3|MId=o040030130031|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
5	בְּכוֹר֒	בְּכֹר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=firstborn|Ref=NUM_3:13!4|MId=o040030130041|Strong=1060
6-7	בְּיוֹם֩	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=NUM_3:13!5|MId=o040030130051|Strong=0871a
7	יוֹם֩	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Gloss=the.day|Ref=NUM_3:13!5|MId=o040030130052|Strong=3117
8-9	הַכֹּתִ֨י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	הַכֹּת	נָכָה	VERB	_	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	7	acl	_	Gloss=I|Ref=NUM_3:13!6|MId=o040030130061|Strong=5221|Frame=AA:040030130062;A0:040030130081;|Type=infinitive_construct
9	ִ֨י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	Gloss=struck.down|Ref=NUM_3:13!6|MId=o040030130062|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal
10	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Gloss=every|Ref=NUM_3:13!7|MId=o040030130071|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
11	בְּכ֜וֹר	בְּכֹר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=firstborn|Ref=NUM_3:13!8|MId=o040030130081|Strong=1060
12-13	בְּאֶ֣רֶץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_3:13!9|MId=o040030130091|Strong=0871a
13	אֶ֣רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Gloss=the.land|Ref=NUM_3:13!9|MId=o040030130092|Strong=0776
14	מִצְרַ֗יִם	מִצְרַיִם	PROPN	_	_	13	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Egypt|Ref=NUM_3:13!10|MId=o040030130101|Strong=4714
15	הִקְדַּ֨שְׁתִּי	קָדַשׁ	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=1	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=I.set.apart|Ref=NUM_3:13!11|MId=o040030130111|Strong=6942|Frame=AA:040030110021;A0:040030130141;|Type=qatal
16-17	לִ֤י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	17	case	_	Gloss=for|Ref=NUM_3:13!12|MId=o040030130121|Strong=3807a
17	ִ֤י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	Gloss=myself|Ref=NUM_3:13!12|MId=o040030130122|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
18	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Gloss=every|Ref=NUM_3:13!13|MId=o040030130131|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
19	בְּכוֹר֙	בְּכֹר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	18	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=firstborn|Ref=NUM_3:13!14|MId=o040030130141|Strong=1060
20-21	בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_3:13!15|MId=o040030130151|Strong=0871a
21	יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	_	15	obl	_	Gloss=Israel|Ref=NUM_3:13!15|MId=o040030130152|Strong=3478
22-23	מֵאָדָ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	_	23	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=NUM_3:13!16|MId=o040030130161|Strong=4480
23	אָדָ֖ם	אָדָם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Gloss=humankind|Ref=NUM_3:13!16|MId=o040030130162|Strong=0120
24	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	_	25	case	_	Gloss=unto|Ref=NUM_3:13!17|MId=o040030130171|Strong=5704|SpaceAfter=No
25	בְּהֵמָ֑ה	בְּהֵמָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	23	conj	_	Gloss=livestock|Ref=NUM_3:13!18|MId=o040030130181|Strong=0929
26-27	לִ֥י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
26	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	27	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_3:13!19|MId=o040030130191|Strong=3807a
27	ִ֥י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=me|Ref=NUM_3:13!19|MId=o040030130192|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
28	יִהְי֖וּ	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	27	cop	_	Gloss=they.will.belong|Ref=NUM_3:13!20|MId=o040030130201|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:040030120182;|Type=yiqtol
29	אֲנִ֥י	אֲנִי	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	Gloss=I|Ref=NUM_3:13!21|MId=o040030130211|Strong=0589|Type=personal
30	יְהוָֽה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=[am].Yahweh|Ref=NUM_3:13!22|MId=o040030130221|Strong=3068|SpaceAfter=No
31	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	30	punct	_	Ref=NUM_3:13!22|SpaceAfter=No
32	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	_	30	punct	_	Ref=NUM_3:13!22
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| הַכֹּת *I* | infinitive construct · hiphil | בְּכוֹר *firstborn* |  |  | ִי *struck down* |
| הִקְדַּשְׁתִּי *I set apart* | qatal · hiphil | בְּכוֹר *firstborn* |  |  |  |
| יִהְיוּ *they will belong* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |

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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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אֲרֵי דִילִי כָּל בּוּכְרָא בְּיוֹמָא דִקְטָלִית כָּל בּוּכְרָא בְּאַרְעָא דְמִצְרַיִם אַקְדֵשִׁית קֳדָמַי כָּל בּוּכְרָא בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאֱנָשָׁא עַד בְּעִירָא דִילִי יְהוֹן אֲנָא יְיָ

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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. [for all the first-born are Mine: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto Me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast, Mine they shall be: I am the LORD.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.100/)

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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:NUM:100`.

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