## Onkelos Numbers Chapter 21

###### Onkelos Numbers 21:1
[Onkelos Numbers 21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:1)

וּשְׁמַע כְּנַעֲנָאָה מַלְכָּא דַעֲרָד יָתֵב דָּרוֹמָא אֲרֵי אֲתָא יִשְׂרָאֵל אֹרַח מְאַלְלַיָּא **וְאַגַּח קְרָבָא** בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל וּשְׁבָא מִנֵּיהּ שִׁבְיָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The Canaanite King of Arad heard—who lived in the south—that Yisroel had come by the route of the spies; he attacked [**waged war with**] Yisroel, and he took from them a captive.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:2
[Onkelos Numbers 21:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:2)

וְקַיֵּם יִשְׂרָאֵל קְיָם **קֳדָם** יְיָ וַאֲמַר אִם מִמְסַר תִּמְסַר יָת עַמָּא הָדֵין בִּידִי וַאֲגַמַּר יָת קִרְוֵיהוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Yisroel made a vow to [**before**] Adonoy and said, “If You will deliver this people into my hand, I shall consecrate their cities.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:3
[Onkelos Numbers 21:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:3)

וְקַבֵּיל יְיָ **צְלוֹתֵיהּ** דְּיִשְׂרָאֵל וּמְסַר יָת כְּנַעֲנָאָה וְגַמַּר יָתְהוֹן וְיָת קִרְוֵיהוֹן וּקְרָא שְׁמָא דְאַתְרָא חָרְמָה:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Adonoy heard Yisroel’s voice [**prayers**], and He delivered the Canaanites (into Yisroel’s hand), and he (Yisroel) destroyed them and [consecrated] their cities; the region was named Chormo.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:4
[Onkelos Numbers 21:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:4)

וּנְטָלוּ מְהֹר טוּרָא אֹרַח יַמָּא דְסוּף לְאַקָּפָא יָת אַרְעָא דֶאֱדוֹם וַעֲקַת **נַפְשָׁא** דְעַמָּא בְּאוֹרְחָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They then traveled from Mount Hor by the Reed Sea route, in order to circle around the land of Edom; traveling was insufferable to the [**soul of the**] people.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:5
[Onkelos Numbers 21:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:5)

**וְאִתְרַעַם** עַמָּא **בְּמֵימְרָא** דַיְיָ וְעִם משֶׁה נְצוֹ לְמָא אַסֶּקְתּוּנָא מִמִּצְרַיִם לִמְמַת בְּמַדְבְּרָא אֲרֵי לֵית לַחְמָא וְלֵית מַיָּא וְנַפְשָׁנָא עָקַת בְּמַנָּא הָדֵין **דְּמֵיכְלֵיהּ קָלִיל**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The people spoke out [**complained**] against [**the word of**] God and [**they fought**] Moshe, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no food and no water, and we are disgusted with this rotten bread [**which is eaten simply**].”


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:6
[Onkelos Numbers 21:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:6)

וְגָרֵי יְיָ בְּעַמָּא יָת חִיוַן קָלָן וּנְכִיתוּ יָת עַמָּא וּמִית עַם סַגִּי מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Adonoy sent against the people the consuming snakes, and they bit the people, and many people of Yisroel died.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:7
[Onkelos Numbers 21:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:7)

וַאֲתָא עַמָּא לְמשֶׁה וַאֲמָרוּ חַבְנָא אֲרֵי **אִתְרַעַמְנָא קֳדָם** יְיָ וְעִמָּךְ **נְצֵינָא** צַלִּי **קֳדָם** יְיָ וְיַעֲדִּי מִנָּנָא יָת חִוְיָא וְצַלִּי משֶׁה עַל עַמָּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The people came to Moshe and said, “We have sinned by speaking against [**complaining before**] Adonoy and [**fighting with**] you; pray to [**before**] Adonoy that He remove the snakes from us.” Moshe prayed on behalf of the people.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:8
[Onkelos Numbers 21:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:8)

וַאֲמַר יְיָ לְמשֶׁה עֲבֵיד לָךְ קָלְיָא וְשַׁוֵּי יָתֵיהּ עַל אָת וִיהֵי כָּל דְּיִתְנְכִית וְיֶחֱזֵי יָתֵיהּ וְיִתְקַיָּם:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Adonoy said to Moshe, “Make yourself [the image of] a consuming snake, and place it upon a banner; and anyone bitten will look at it and live.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:9
[Onkelos Numbers 21:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:9)

וַעֲבַד משֶׁה חִוְיָא דִנְחָשָׁא וְשַׁוְיֵיהּ עַל אָת וַהֲוָה כַּד נָכִית חִוְיָא יָת גַּבְרָא וּמִסְתַּכֵּל לְחִוְיָא דִנְחָשָׁא וּמִתְקַיָּם:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Moshe made a copper snake and placed it on the banner; whenever a snake bit a person, he would gaze upon the copper snake and live.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:10
[Onkelos Numbers 21:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:10)

וּנְטָלוּ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וּשְׁרוֹ בְּאֹבֹת:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Bnei Yisroel traveled on and camped in Ovos.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:11
[Onkelos Numbers 21:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:11)

וּנְטָלוּ מֵאֹבֹת וּשְׁרוֹ בִּמְגִיזַת עֲבָרָאֵי בְּמַדְבְּרָא דִּי עַל אַפֵּי מוֹאָב מִמַּדְנַח שִׁמְשָׁא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They traveled from Ovos and camped in the wasteland passes in the wilderness, facing Moav, eastward of the sun.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:12
[Onkelos Numbers 21:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:12)

מִתַּמָּן נְטָלוּ וּשְׁרוֹ בְּנַחֲלָא דְזָרֶד:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They traveled from there and camped in the valley of Zered.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:13
[Onkelos Numbers 21:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:13)

מִתַּמָּן נְטָלוּ וּשְׁרוֹ מֵעִבְרָא דְאַרְנוֹן דִּי בְמַדְבְּרָא דְּנָפֵק מִתְּחוּם אֱמוֹרָאָה אֲרֵי אַרְנוֹן תְּחוּם מוֹאָב בֵּין מוֹאָב וּבֵין אֱמוֹרָאָה:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They traveled from there and camped opposite Arnon, in the wilderness, extending from the Emorite border; Arnon being the Moav border between Moav and the Emorite.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:14
[Onkelos Numbers 21:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:14)

עַל כֵּן יִתְאַמַּר בְּסִפְרָא קְרָבִין דַּעֲבַד יְיָ עַל יַמָּא דְסוּף **וּגְבוּרַן** דְּעַל נַחֲלֵי אַרְנוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Concerning this will be told in the Book of the Wars of Adonoy, “He gave at the Reeds (Sea) and [**the might at**] the valleys of Arnon.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:15
[Onkelos Numbers 21:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:15)

וְשָׁפוּךְ נַחֲלַיָּא דְּמִדַּבְּרִין לָקֳבֵל לְחַיָּת וּמִסְתְּמִיךְ לִתְחוּם מוֹאָב:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
And the spillage in the valleys when it turned to dwell at Ar, and then leaned on the border of Moav.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:16
[Onkelos Numbers 21:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:16)

וּמִתַּמָּן אִתְיְהִיבַת לְהוֹן בֵּירָא הִיא בֵירָא דִּי אֲמַר יְיָ לְמשֶׁה כְּנוֹשׁ יָת עַמָּא וְאֶתֵּן לְהוֹן מַיָּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
From there, to the well; this is the well of which Adonoy said to Moshe, ‘Gather the people and I will give them water.’”


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:17
[Onkelos Numbers 21:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:17)

בְּכֵן שַׁבַּח יִשְׂרָאֵל יָת **תּוּשְׁבַּחְתָּא** הָדָא סַקִּי בֵירָא שַׁבָּחוּ לָהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
It was then that Yisroel sang this song [**of praise**]: “Arise, O well, sing to it!


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:18
[Onkelos Numbers 21:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:18)

בֵּירָא דְּחָפְרוּהָ רַבְרְבַיָּא כְּרוּהָ רֵישֵׁי עַמָּא סַפְרַיָּא בְּחוּטְרֵיהוֹן וּמִמַּדְבְּרָא **אִתְיְהִיבַת לְהוֹן**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The well dug by princes, that the nobles of the nation excavated, through the lawgiver, with their staffs; from the wilderness a gift [**was given to them**].


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:19
[Onkelos Numbers 21:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:19)

**וּמִדְּאִתְיְהִיבַת** לְהוֹן נָחֲתָא עִמְּהוֹן לְנַחֲלַיָּא וּמִנַחֲלַיָּא **סָלְקָא** עִמְּהוֹן לְרָמָתָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The gift [**given to them**] (traveled) to the valley, and from the valley [**rose with them**] to the heights.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:20
[Onkelos Numbers 21:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:20)

וּמֵרָמָתָא לְחֵילַיָּא דִּי בְּחַקְלֵי מוֹאָב רֵישׁ רָמָתָא וּמִסְתַּכְיָא עַל אַפֵּי בֵית יְשִׁימוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
And from the heights to the valley that is in the field of Moav, at the top of the peak that overlooks the wastelands.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:21
[Onkelos Numbers 21:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:21)

וּשְׁלַח יִשְׂרָאֵל אִזְגַּדִּין לְוָת סִיחוֹן מַלְכָּא דֶאֱמוֹרָאָה לְמֵימָר:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Yisroel sent emissaries to Sichon, King of the Emorite, saying.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:22
[Onkelos Numbers 21:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:22)

אֲעִבַר בְּאַרְעָךְ לָא נִסְטֵי בַּחֲקַל וּבִכְרַם לָא נִשְׁתֵּי מֵי גוֹב בְּאֹרַח מַלְכָּא נֵזֵל עַד דִּי נְעִבַר תְּחוּמָךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
“Let me pass through your land, we will not turn aside into the fields and vineyards, we will not drink well water; we will go by the King’s road until we have passed through your territory.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:23
[Onkelos Numbers 21:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:23)

וְלָא שְׁבַק סִיחוֹן יָת יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמֶעְבַּר בִּתְחוּמֵיהּ וּכְנַשׁ סִיחוֹן יָת כָּל עַמֵּיהּ וּנְפַק לָקֳדָמוּת יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמַדְבְּרָא וַאֲתָא לְיָהַץ **וִאַגִּיחַ קְרָבָא** בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
But Sichon did not allow Yisroel to pass through his territory; Sichon gathered all his people and went out against Yisroel to the wilderness; he came to Yohatz and attacked [**waged war with**] Yisroel.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:24
[Onkelos Numbers 21:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:24)

וּמְחָהִי יִשְׂרָאֵל לְפִתְגַּם דְּחָרֶב וִירֵת יָת אַרְעֵיהּ מְאַרְנוֹנָא עַד יוּבְקָא עַד בְּנֵי עַמּוֹן אֲרֵי תַקִּיף תְּחוּמָא דִּבְנֵי עַמּוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Yisroel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land; from Arnon to the Yabok, as far as Amon[’s border], because Amon’s border was impregnable.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:25
[Onkelos Numbers 21:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:25)

**וּכְבַשׁ** יִשְׂרָאֵל יָת כָּל קִרְוַיָּא הָאִלֵּין וִיתֵב יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּכָל קִרְוֵי אֱמוֹרָאָה בְּחֶשְׁבּוֹן וּבְכָל **כַּפְרָנָהָא**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Yisroel took [**captured**] all these cities; Yisroel settled in all the cities of the Emorite, in Cheshbon and all its daughters [**villages**].


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:26
[Onkelos Numbers 21:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:26)

אֲרֵי חֶשְׁבּוֹן קַרְתָּא דְּסִיחוֹן מַלְכָּא דֶאֱמוֹרָאָה הִיא וְהוּא אַגַּח קְרָבָא בְּמַלְכָּא דְמוֹאָב קַדְמָאָה וּנְסִיב יָת כָּל אַרְעֵיהּ מִידֵיהּ עַד אַרְנוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For Cheshbon was then a city of Sichon, King of the Emorites, and he had waged war against the first king of Moav, and took all his land from his hand, as far as Arnon.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:27
[Onkelos Numbers 21:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:27)

עַל כֵּן יֵימְרוּן מְתָלַיָּא עוּלוּ לְחֶשְׁבּוֹן תִּתְבְּנֵי וְתִשְׁתַּכְלַל קַרְתָּא דְסִיחוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Concerning this, the parable tellers say: “Come to Cheshbon, may it be built and established as the city of Sichon.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:28
[Onkelos Numbers 21:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:28)

אֲרֵי **קִידוּם תַּקִּיף כְּ**אֶשָּׁא נְפַק מֵחֶשְׁבּוֹן **עָבְדֵי קְרָבָא** כְּשַׁלְהוֹבִיתָא מִקַּרְתָּא דְסִיחוֹן **קְטִילוּ עַמָּא דִּשְׁרוֹ** בִלְחָיַת מוֹאָב **כּוּמְרַיָּא דְּפָלְחִין בֵּית דַּחֲלָא** רָמָתָא דְאַרְנוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For [**an Easterly wind as strong as**] a fire went forth from Cheshbon, [**waged war as**] a flame from Sichon’s capital; it consumed [**killing the nation that dwelled in**] Ar [**Lechoyas**], of Moav, [**killing**] the masters [**priests who serve in the house of idol worship**] of Arnon’s heights.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:29
[Onkelos Numbers 21:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:29)

וַי לְכוֹן מוֹאָבָאֵי אֲבַדְתּוּן עַמָּא **דְפָלְחִין** לִכְמוֹשׁ מְסַר בְּנוֹהִי צִירִין וּבְנָתֵיהּ בְּשִׁבְיָא לְמַלְכָּא דֶאֱמוֹרָאָה סִיחוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Woe to you, O Moav, you are destroyed, people of [**who serve**] Kemosh, he rendered your sons as refugees, and your daughters captives, of Sichon, King of Emori.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:30
[Onkelos Numbers 21:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:30)

וּמַלְכוּ פְסָקַת מֵחֶשְׁבּוֹן **עֲדָא שׁוּלְטַן** מִדִּיבוֹן וְצַדִיאוּ עַד נֹפַח דִּסְמִיךְ עַד מֵידְבָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Their kingdom was uprooted from Cheshbon as far as Divon [**whose reign has ended**]; we made them desolate as far as Nofach near Meidva.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:31
[Onkelos Numbers 21:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:31)

וִיתֵב יִשְׂרָאֵל בַּאֲרַע אֱמוֹרָאָה:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Yisroel settled in the land of the Emorite.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:32
[Onkelos Numbers 21:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:32)

וּשְׁלַח משֶׁה לְאַלָּלָא יָת יַעְזֵר וּכְבָשׁוּ כַּפְרָנָהָא וְתָרִיךְ יָת אֱמוֹרָאָה דִּי תַמָּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Moshe sent [men] to spy on Ya’zer, and they captured its surrounding villages, and drove out the Emorites that were there.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:33
[Onkelos Numbers 21:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:33)

וְאִתְפְּנִיאוּ וּסְלִיקוּ לְאֹרַח **מַתְנָן** וּנְפַק עוֹג מַלְכָּא **דְמַתְנָן** לָקֳדָמוּתְהוֹן הוּא וְכָל עַמֵּיהּ לְאַגָּחָא קְרָבָא לְאֶדְרֶעִי:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They then turned and headed toward the Bashan [**Masnon**]; and Og, King of the Bashan [**Masnon**], came out against them he with all his people, to wage war at Edre’i.


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:34
[Onkelos Numbers 21:34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:34)

וַאֲמַר יְיָ לְמשֶׁה לָא תִדְחַל מִנֵּיהּ אֲרֵי בִידָךְ מְסָרִית יָתֵיהּ וְיָת כָּל עַמֵּיהּ וְיָת אַרְעֵיהּ וְתַעְבֵּד לֵיהּ כְּמָא דִי עֲבַדְתְּ לְסִיחוֹן מַלְכָּא דֶאֱמוֹרָאָה דִּי יָתֵב בְּחֶשְׁבּוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Adonoy said to Moshe, “Do not be afraid of him, for into your hand I have delivered Ihim and all his people and territory; do to him as you have done to Sichon, King of the Emorite, who lives in Cheshbon.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 21:35
[Onkelos Numbers 21:35](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/21:35)

וּמְחוֹ יָתֵיהּ וְיָת בְּנוֹהִי וְיָת כָּל עַמֵּיהּ עַד דְּלָא אִשְׁתְּאַר לֵיהּ מְשֵׁזִיב וִירִיתוּ יָת אַרְעֵיהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
And they killed him (Og), his sons, and all his people, leaving no survivors; and they took possession of his land.