Numbers 1:48

The Lord had said to Moses, ¹ 

The LORD had said to Moses:

For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

For the LORD had said to Moses,

GOD had told Moses,

For the Lord said to Moses,

The LORD had said to Moses:

for the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying:

The Lord had said to Moses, ¹ 

¹ tn Heb “had spoken to Moses, saying.” The infinitive construct of אָמַר (’amar), sometimes rendered “saying” in older English translations, does not need to be translated, but can be taken simply as the indicator of direct discourse. Most recent English translations, including the present one, leave the form untranslated for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.