Numbers 15:34

15:34 They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

Numbers 17:4

17:4 You must place them ¹  in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant ²  where I meet with you.

Numbers 17:7

17:7 Then Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony. ³ 

Numbers 32:15

32:15 For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon ⁴  them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.” ⁵ 

¹ tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of נוּחַ (nuakh, “to rest”), and so “to set at rest, lay, place, put.” The form with the vav (ו) consecutive continues the instruction of the previous verse.

² tn The Hebrew text simply reads “the covenant” or “the testimony.”

¹ tn The name of the tent now attests to the centrality of the ark of the covenant. Instead of the “tent of meeting” (מוֹעֵד, mo’ed) we now find the “the tent of the testimony” (הָעֵדֻת, ha’edut).

¹ tn The construction uses a verbal hendiadys with the verb “to add” serving to modify the main verb.

² tn Heb “and you will destroy all this people.”