Numbers 3:12

3:12 “Look, ¹  I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of ²  every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

Numbers 5:22

5:22 and this water that causes the curse will go ³  into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.” ⁴  Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.” ⁵ 

Numbers 16:42

16:42 When the community assembled ⁶  against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting – and ⁷  the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

Numbers 22:36

Balaam Meets Balak

22:36 When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab which was on the border of the Arnon at the boundary of his territory.

Numbers 33:2

33:2 Moses recorded their departures ⁸  according to their journeys, by the commandment ⁹  of the Lord; now these are their journeys according to their departures.

Numbers 33:40

33:40 The king of Arad, the Canaanite king who lived in the south of the land of Canaan, heard about the approach of the Israelites.

¹ tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) here carries its deictic force, calling attention to the fact that is being declared. It is underscoring the fact that the Lord himself chose Levi.

² tn Literally “in the place of.”

³ tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. It could be taken as a jussive following the words of the priest in the previous section, but it is more likely to be a simple future.

⁴ tn Heb “fall away.”

⁵ tn The word “amen” carries the idea of “so be it,” or “truly.” The woman who submits to this test is willing to have the test demonstrate the examination of God.

⁵ tn The temporal clause is constructed with the temporal indicator (“and it was”) followed by the Niphal infinitive construct and preposition.

⁶ tn The verse uses וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and behold”). This is the deictic particle – it is used to point things out, suddenly calling attention to them, as if the reader were there. The people turned to look toward the tent – and there is the cloud!

⁷ tn Heb “their goings out.”

⁸ tn Heb “mouth.”