Numbers 7:12

The Tribal Offerings

7:12 The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah. ¹ 

Numbers 11:28

11:28 Joshua son of Nun, the servant ²  of Moses, one of his choice young men, ³  said, ⁴  “My lord Moses, stop them!” ⁵ 

Numbers 15:27

15:27 “‘If any person ⁶  sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.

Numbers 19:8

19:8 The one who burns it ⁷  must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

Numbers 28:5

28:5 with one-tenth of an ephah ⁸  of finely ground flour as a grain offering mixed with one quarter of a hin ⁹  of pressed olive oil.

¹ sn The tribe of Judah is listed first. It seems that it had already achieved a place of prominence based on the patriarchal promise of the Messiahship in Judah (Gen 49:10).

² tn The form is the Piel participle מְשָׁרֵת (mÿsharet), meaning “minister, servant, assistant.” The word has a loftier meaning than the ordinary word for slave.

³ tn The verb is בָּחַר (bakhar, “to choose”); here the form is the masculine plural participle with a suffix, serving as the object of the preposition מִן (min). It would therefore mean “[one of] his chosen men,” or “[one of] his choice men.”

⁴ tn Heb “answered and said.”

⁵ sn The effort of Joshua is to protect Moses’ prerogative as leader by stopping these men in the camp from prophesying. Joshua did not understand the significance in the Lord’s plan to let other share the burden of leadership.

³ tn The Hebrew text hasוְאִם־נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת (vÿ’im-nefesh ’akhat), sometime translated “and if any soul.” But the word describes the whole person, the soul in the body; it refers here to the individual who sins.

⁴ sn Here the text makes clear that he had at least one assistant.

⁵ sn That is about two quarts.

⁶ sn That is about one quart.