Numbers 3:41

3:41 And take ¹  the Levites for me – I am the Lord – instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.”

Numbers 8:16

8:16 For they are entirely given ²  to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of ³  all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites.

Numbers 8:20

8:20 So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

Numbers 9:17

9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up ⁴  from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place ⁵  the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.

Numbers 16:9

16:9 Does it seem too small a thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the community to minister to them?

Numbers 18:24

18:24 But I have given ⁶  to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered ⁷  to the Lord as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”

Numbers 21:23

21:23 But Sihon did not permit Israel to pass through his border; he ⁸  gathered all his forces ⁹  together and went out against Israel into the wilderness. When ¹⁰  he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

Numbers 25:6

25:6 Just then ¹¹  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ¹²  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ¹³  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ¹⁴  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 25:11

25:11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal ¹⁵  for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal. ¹⁶ 

Numbers 26:62

26:62 Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

Numbers 36:8

36:8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite ¹⁷  may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

¹ tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it carries forward the instructions from the preceding verse. The verb “take” now has the sense of appointing or designating the Levites.

² tn As before, the emphasis is obtained by repeating the passive participle: “given, given to me.”

³ tn Or “as substitutes” for all the firstborn of the Israelites.

³ tn The verb in this initial temporal clause is the Niphal infinitive construct.

⁴ tn Heb “in the place where it settled there”; the relative clause modifies the noun “place,” and the resumptive adverb completes the related idea – “which it settled there” means “where it settled.”

⁴ tn The classification of the perfect tense here too could be the perfect of resolve, since this law is declaring what will be their portion – “I have decided to give.”

⁵ tn In the Hebrew text the verb has no expressed subject (although the “Israelites” is certainly intended), and so it can be rendered as a passive.

⁵ tn Heb “Sihon.”

⁶ tn Heb “people.”

⁷ tn The clause begins with a preterite with vav (ו) consecutive, but may be subordinated to the next preterite as a temporal clause.

⁶ tn The verse begins with the deictic particle וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh), pointing out the action that was taking place. It stresses the immediacy of the action to the reader.

⁷ tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

⁸ tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”

⁹ tn The vav (ו) at the beginning of the clause is a disjunctive because it is prefixed to the nonverbal form. In this context it is best interpreted as a circumstantial clause, stressing that this happened “while” people were weeping over the sin.

⁷ tn Heb “he was zealous with my zeal.” The repetition of forms for “zeal” in the line stresses the passion of Phinehas. The word “zeal” means a passionate intensity to protect or preserve divine or social institutions.

⁸ tn The word for “zeal” now occurs a third time. While some English versions translate this word here as “jealousy” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), it carries the force of God’s passionate determination to defend his rights and what is right about the covenant and the community and parallels the “zeal” that Phinehas had just demonstrated.

⁸ tn The subject is “Israelites” and the verb is plural to agree with it, but the idea is collective as the word for “man” indicates: “so that the Israelites may possess – [each] man the inheritance of his fathers.”