Numbers 32:7-9

32:7 Why do you frustrate the intent ¹  of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the Lord has given them? 32:8 Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. 32:9 When ²  they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter ³  the land that the Lord had given ⁴  them.

¹ tn Heb “heart.” So also in v. 9.

² tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the parallel yet chronologically later verb in the next clause.

³ tn The infinitive construct here with lamed (ל) is functioning as a result clause.

⁴ tn The Lord had not given it yet, but was going to give it. Hence, the perfect should be classified as a perfect of resolve.