Numbers 33:32

33:32 They traveled from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.

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 16:2

16:2 and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders ³  of the community, chosen from the assembly, ⁴  famous men. ⁵ 

Numbers 8:16

8:16 For they are entirely given ⁶  to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of ⁷  all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites.

Numbers 25:6

25:6 Just then ⁸  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ⁹  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ¹⁰  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ¹¹  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 36:3

36:3 Now if they should be married to one of the men ¹²  from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. ¹³  As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

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.”

¹ tn Heb “princes” (so KJV, ASV).

² tn These men must have been counselors or judges of some kind.

³ tn Heb “men of name,” or “men of renown.”

¹ tn As before, the emphasis is obtained by repeating the passive participle: “given, given to me.”

² tn Or “as substitutes” for all the firstborn of the Israelites.

¹ 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.

² tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

³ tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”

⁴ 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.

¹ tn “Men” is understood; it says “to one from the sons of the tribes of the Israelites for a wife,” or if he has her for a wife.

² tn Heb “which they will be to them,” meaning, to those who have them, i.e., the marriages.