Passage

Numbers 6.27

Book: Numbers · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV

25. Jehovah make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: 26. Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

27. So shall they put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them. (Numbers 6:25-27, ASV)

WEB

25. Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you. 26. Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’

27. “So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.” (Numbers 6:25-27, WEB)

KJV

25. The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: 26. The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

27. And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them. (Numbers 6:25-27, KJV)

YLT

25. 'Jehovah cause His face to shine upon thee, and favour thee; 26. 'Jehovah lift up His countenance upon thee, and appoint for thee, peace.

27. 'And they have put My name upon the sons of Israel, and I, I do bless them.' (Numbers 6:25-27, YLT)

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Setting

Speaker: Yahweh, speaking to Moses (Numbers 6:22), explaining the blessing he has given Aaron and his sons to speak.
Audience: Moses and the priests; Israel as the people blessed.
Location: The camp in the wilderness of Sinai.
Time period: At Sinai in the second year after the Exodus, between the census of Numbers 1:1 and the departure on the twentieth day of the second month (Numbers 10:11); traditionally dated to the 15th or 13th century BC, depending on the Exodus chronology.

Theological reading

The priests speak, God blesses. "So shall they put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them" (Numbers 6:27, ASV). The verse makes Yahweh the one who acts. The priestly words are not a formula that works on its own; they are the appointed means by which God's name is set on his people and his blessing given.

The name marks belonging. To put the name (H8034 - shem) on Israel is to mark the people as his. Deuteronomy uses the same idea of Israel's public identity: "all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah" (Deuteronomy 28:10, ASV). The blessing closes on belonging as well as favor.

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap.

H8034 - shem, shem, Strong's H8034
H1121 - ben, ben, Strong's H1121

Quoted in

Concepts:

Ketef Hinnom Silver Scrolls

Lexicon:

H3548 - kohen, via Numbers 6.23-27
H8034 - shem

Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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