Text -- Numbers 16:31 (NET)

16:31 When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Num 16:31

¹ tn The initial temporal clause is standard: It begins with the temporal indicator “and it was,” followed here by the Piel infinitive construct with the preposition and the subjective genitive suffix. “And it happened when he finished.”

² tn The infinitive construct with the preposition lamed (ל) functions here as the direct object of the preceding infinitive. It tells what he finished.