Numbers 14:41

14:41 But Moses said, “Why ¹  are you now transgressing the commandment ²  of the Lord? It will not succeed!

Numbers 34:6

The Western Border of the Land

34:6 “‘And for a western border ³  you will have the Great Sea. ⁴  This will be your western border.

Numbers 34:9

34:9 The border will continue to Ziphron, and its direction will be to Hazar Enan. This will be your northern border.

¹ tn The line literally has, “Why is this [that] you are transgressing….” The demonstrative pronoun is enclitic; it brings the force of “why in the world are you doing this now?”

² tn Heb “mouth.”

³ tn The word for west is simply “sea,” because the sea is west of Israel.

⁴ sn That is, the Mediterranean Sea (also in the following verse).