Numbers 18:3

18:3 They must be responsible to care for you and to care for the entire tabernacle. However, they must not come near the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die.

Numbers 18:15

18:15 The firstborn of every womb which they present to the Lord, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, ¹  and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.

Numbers 22:35

22:35 But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you may only speak ²  the word that I will speak to you.” ³  So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

Numbers 28:8

28:8 And the second lamb you must offer in the late afternoon; just as you offered the grain offering and drink offering in the morning, ⁴  you must offer it as an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

¹ tn The construction uses the infinitive absolute and the imperfect tense of the verb “to redeem” in order to stress the point – they were to be redeemed. N. H. Snaith suggests that the verb means to get by payment what was not originally yours, whereas the other root גָאַל (ga’al) means to get back what was originally yours (Leviticus and Numbers [NCB], 268).

¹ tn The imperfect tense here can be given the nuance of permission.

² tn The Hebrew word order is a little more emphatic than this: “but only the word which I speak to you, it you shall speak.”

¹ tn Heb “as the grain offering of the morning and as its drink offering.”