Numbers 4:3

4:3 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company ¹  to do the work in the tent of meeting.

Numbers 14:24

14:24 Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants ²  will possess it.

Numbers 21:1

Victory at Hormah

21:1 ³ When the Canaanite king of Arad ⁴  who lived in the Negev ⁵  heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.

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 25:6

25:6 Just then ⁶  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ⁷  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ⁸  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ⁹  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 32:9

32:9 When ¹⁰  they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter ¹¹  the land that the Lord had given ¹²  them.

¹ tn The word “company” is literally “host, army” (צָבָא, tsava’). The repetition of similar expressions makes the translation difficult: Heb “all [who] come to the host to do work in the tent.”

² tn Heb “seed.”

³ sn This chapter has several events in it: the victory over Arad (vv. 1-3), the plague of serpents (vv. 4-9), the approach to Moab (vv. 10-20), and the victory over Sihon and Og (vv. 21-35). For information, see D. M. Gunn, “The ‘Battle Report’: Oral or Scribal Convention.” JBL 93 (1974): 513-18; and of the extensive literature on the archaeological site, see EAEHL 1:74-89.

⁴ sn The name Arad probably refers to a place a number of miles away from Tel Arad in southern Israel. The name could also refer to the whole region (like Edom).

⁵ tn Or “the south”; “Negev” has become a technical name for the southern desert region and is still in use in modern times.

⁴ 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.

⁵ tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

⁶ tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”

⁷ 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.

⁵ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the parallel yet chronologically later verb in the next clause.

⁶ tn The infinitive construct here with lamed (ל) is functioning as a result clause.

⁷ 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.