Numbers 1:54

1:54 The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses ¹  – that is what they did.

Numbers 2:33

2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 3:42

3:42 So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him.

Numbers 9:8

9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain ²  here and I will hear ³  what the Lord will command concerning you.”

Numbers 17:11

17:11 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him – this is what he did.

Numbers 20:27

20:27 So Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight ⁴  of the whole community.

Numbers 27:19

27:19 set him ⁵  before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community, and commission ⁶  him publicly. ⁷ 

Numbers 27:23

27:23 He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, just as the Lord commanded, ⁸  by the authority ⁹  of Moses.

Numbers 31:7

31:7 They fought against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed every male. ¹⁰ 

Numbers 31:31

31:31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 34:29

34:29 These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 36:10

36:10 As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.

¹ tc The LXX adds “and Aaron.”

² tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.

³ tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”

³ tn Heb “eyes.”

⁴ tn This could be translated “position him,” or “have him stand,” since it is the causative stem of the verb “to stand.”

⁵ tn The verb is the Piel perfect of צִוָּה (tsivvah, literally “to command”). The verb has a wide range of meanings, and so here in this context the idea of instructing gives way to a more general sense of commissioning for duty. The verb in sequence is equal to the imperfect of instruction.

⁶ tn Heb “in their eyes.”

⁵ tn Heb “spoke.”

⁶ tn Heb “hand.”

⁶ sn Many modern biblical scholars assume that this passage is fictitious. The text says that they killed every male, but Judges accounts for the Midianites. The texts can be harmonized rather simply – they killed every Midianite who was in the battle. Midianite tribes and cities dotted the whole region, but that does not mean Israel went and killed every single one of them. There apparently was a core of Midianites whom Balaam had influenced to pervert Israel.