4:9 “They must take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it.
4:1 1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:
12:13 Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.” 4
25:14 Now the name of the Israelite who was stabbed – the one who was stabbed with the Midianite woman – was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of a clan 5 of the Simeonites.
1 sn The chapter has four main parts to it: Kohathites (1-20), Gershonites (21-28), Merarites (29-33) and the census of the Levites (34-49).
2 tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”
3 tn The form is the Qal active participle from the verb “to stand” (עָמַד, ’amad). The form describes these leaders as “the ones standing over [the ones numbered].” The expression, along with the clear indication of the first census in chapter 1, shows that this was a supervisory capacity.
4 tc Some scholars emend אֵל (’el, “God”) to עַל(’al, “no”). The effect of this change may be seen in the NAB: “‘Please, not this! Pray, heal her!’”
5 tn Heb “a father’s house.” So also in v. 15.
6 sn These shovels were used to clean the altar.
7 sn These trimming shears were used to trim the wicks of the lamps.
8 tn Heb “with which they served (or “fulfilled their duty”).”