--- title: Numbers 3:45 — 'Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children o… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: 'Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine, even the LORD'S. Who acts: you, Levites. 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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 — you, Levites — and what happens in the verse to Levites, Mine, 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. קַ֣ח אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֗ם תַּ֤חַת כָּל־בְּכוֹר֙ בִּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאֶת־בֶּהֱמַ֥ת הַלְוִיִּ֖ם תַּ֣חַת בְּהֶמְתָּ֑ם וְהָיוּ־לִ֥י הַלְוִיִּ֖ם אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ ['Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine, even the LORD'S.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.133/) ## The tree {#tree} 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:132 # text = קַ֣ח אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֗ם תַּ֤חַת כָּל־בְּכוֹר֙ בִּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאֶת־בֶּהֱמַ֥ת הַלְוִיִּ֖ם תַּ֣חַת בְּהֶמְתָּ֑ם וְהָיוּ־לִ֥י הַלְוִיִּ֖ם אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ # verse = NUM.3.45 1 קַ֣ח לָקַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=take|Ref=NUM_3:45!1|MId=o040030450011|Strong=3947|Frame=A0:040030440041;A1:040030450032;|Type=imperative 2 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_3:45!2|MId=o040030450021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 3-4 הַלְוִיִּ֗ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_3:45!3|MId=o040030450031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 לְוִיִּ֗ם לֵוִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 obj _ Gloss=Levites|Ref=NUM_3:45!3|MId=o040030450032|Strong=3881|Type=gentilic 5 תַּ֤חַת תַּחַת NOUN _ _ 1 obl _ Gloss=in.place.of|Ref=NUM_3:45!4|MId=o040030450041|Strong=8478 6 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=every|Ref=NUM_3:45!5|MId=o040030450051|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 7 בְּכוֹר֙ בְּכֹר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=firstborn|Ref=NUM_3:45!6|MId=o040030450061|Strong=1060 8-9 בִּבְנֵ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=among|Ref=NUM_3:45!7|MId=o040030450071|Strong=0871a 9 בְנֵ֣י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 7 nmod _ Gloss=the.people|Ref=NUM_3:45!7|MId=o040030450072|Strong=1121 10 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=NUM_3:45!8|MId=o040030450081|Strong=3478 11-12 וְאֶת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_3:45!9|MId=o040030450091|Strong=2050b 12 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_3:45!9|MId=o040030450092|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 13 בֶּהֱמַ֥ת בְּהֵמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 conj _ Gloss=the.livestock|Ref=NUM_3:45!10|MId=o040030450101|Strong=0929 14-15 הַלְוִיִּ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_3:45!11|MId=o040030450111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 לְוִיִּ֖ם לֵוִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.Levites|Ref=NUM_3:45!11|MId=o040030450112|Strong=3881|Type=gentilic 16 תַּ֣חַת תַּחַת NOUN _ _ 13 obl _ Gloss=in.place.of|Ref=NUM_3:45!12|MId=o040030450121|Strong=8478 17-18 בְּהֶמְתָּ֑ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 בְּהֶמְתּ בְּהֵמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=livestock|Ref=NUM_3:45!13|MId=o040030450131|Strong=0929 18 ָ֑ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=NUM_3:45!13|MId=o040030450132|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 19-20 וְהָיוּ־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 22 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_3:45!14|MId=o040030450141|Strong=2050b 20 הָיוּ־ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 22 cop _ Gloss=they.will.belong|Ref=NUM_3:45!14|MId=o040030450142|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:040030450162;|Type=weqatal 21-22 לִ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 ל לְ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_3:45!15|MId=o040030450151|Strong=3807a 22 ִ֥י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 conj _ Gloss=me|Ref=NUM_3:45!15|MId=o040030450152|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 23-24 הַלְוִיִּ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 24 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_3:45!16|MId=o040030450161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 24 לְוִיִּ֖ם לֵוִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Gloss=Levites|Ref=NUM_3:45!16|MId=o040030450162|Strong=3881|Type=gentilic 25 אֲנִ֥י אֲנִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ Gloss=I|Ref=NUM_3:45!17|MId=o040030450171|Strong=0589|Type=personal 26 יְהוָֽה יהוה PROPN _ _ 1 parataxis _ Gloss=[am].Yahweh|Ref=NUM_3:45!18|MId=o040030450181|Strong=3068|SpaceAfter=No 27 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 26 punct _ Ref=NUM_3:45!18 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | קַח *take* | imperative · qal | | לְוִיִּם *Levites* | | | | הָיוּ־ *they will belong* | weqatal · qal | לְוִיִּם *Levites* | | | | 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} קָרֵב יָת לֵוָאֵי חֲלַף כָּל בּוּכְרָא בִּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְיָת בְּעִירָא דְלֵוָאֵי חֲלַף בְּעִירְהוֹן וִיהוֹן מְשַּׁמְשִׁין קֳדָמַי לֵוָאֵי אֲנָא יְיָ The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} 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. 1. ['Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine, even the LORD'S.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.133/) **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:132`. - ← previous: [Numbers 3:44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.44/) - next →: [Numbers 3:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.46/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/3/)