Numbers 9:8

9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain ¹  here and I will hear ²  what the Lord will command concerning you.”

Numbers 14:41

14:41 But Moses said, “Why ³  are you now transgressing the commandment ⁴  of the Lord? It will not succeed!

Numbers 15:34

15:34 They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

Numbers 20:4

20:4 Why ⁵  have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that ⁶  we and our cattle should die here?

Numbers 24:22

24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite will be consumed. ⁷ 

How long will Asshur take you away captive?”

¹ tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.

² tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”

³ tn The line literally has, “Why is this [that] you are transgressing….” The demonstrative pronoun is enclitic; it brings the force of “why in the world are you doing this now?”

⁴ tn Heb “mouth.”

⁵ tn Heb “and why….” The conjunction seems to be recording another thing that the people said in their complaint against Moses.

⁶ tn The clause uses the infinitive construct with the lamed (ל) preposition. The clause would be a result clause in this sentence: “Why have you brought us here…with the result that we will all die?”

⁷ tc Heb “Nevertheless Cain will be wasted; how long will Asshur take you captive?” Cain was believed to be the ancestor of the Kenites. The NAB has “yet destined for burning, even as I watch, are your inhabitants.” Asshur may refer to a north Arabian group of people of Abrahamic stock (Gen 25:3), and not the Assyrian empire.