Numbers 35:34

35:34 Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the Lord live among the Israelites.”

Numbers 35:2

35:2 “Instruct the Israelites to give ¹  the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites ²  will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

Numbers 15:2

15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, ³  which I am giving you, ⁴ 

Jeremiah 18:9-10

18:9 And there are times when I promise to build up and establish ⁵  a nation or kingdom. 18:10 But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.

¹ tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive: “command…and they will give,” or “that they give.”

² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “the land of your habitations.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew participle here has the futur instans use of the participle, expressing that something is going to take place. It is not imminent, but it is certain that God would give the land to Israel.

⁵ sn Heb “plant.” The terms “uproot,” “tear down,” “destroy,” “build,” and “plant” are the two sides of the ministry Jeremiah was called to (cf. Jer 1:10).