Numbers 1:22

1:22 From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them ¹  twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.

Numbers 13:2

13:2 “Send out men to investigate ²  the land of Canaan, which I am giving ³  to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, ⁴  each one a leader among them.”

Numbers 16:38

16:38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, ⁵  they must be made ⁶  into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 16:40

16:40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of ⁷  Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the Lord had spoken by the authority ⁸  of Moses.

Numbers 17:10

The Memorial

17:10 The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end ⁹  before me, that they will not die.” ¹⁰ 

Numbers 20:24

20:24 “Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, ¹¹  for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you ¹²  rebelled against my word ¹³  at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 27:11

27:11 and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, ¹⁴  as the Lord commanded Moses.’”

Numbers 31:54--32:1

31:54 So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders ¹⁵  of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial ¹⁶  for the Israelites before the Lord.

The Petition of the Reubenites and Gadites

32:1 ¹⁷ Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle, ¹⁸ 

Numbers 32:33

Land Assignment

32:33 So Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the realm of King Sihon of the Amorites, and the realm of King Og of Bashan, the entire land with its cities and the territory surrounding them. ¹⁹ 

Numbers 36:1-2

Women and Land Inheritance

36:1 Then the heads of the family groups ²⁰  of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses ²¹  and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. ²²  36:2 They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give ²³  the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

[1:22]  ¹ tc Some witnesses have omitted “those that were numbered of them,” to preserve the literary pattern of the text. The omission is supported by the absence of the expression in the Greek as well as in some MT mss. Most modern commentators follow this.

[13:2]  ² tn The imperfect tense with the conjunction is here subordinated to the preceding imperative to form the purpose clause. It can thus be translated “send…to investigate.”

[13:2]  ³ tn The participle here should be given a future interpretation, meaning “which I am about to give” or “which I am going to give.”

[13:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “one man one man of the tribe of his fathers.”

[16:38]  ³ tn The expression is “in/by/against their life.” That they sinned against their life means that they brought ruin to themselves.

[16:38]  ⁴ tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. But there is no expressed subject for “and they shall make them,” and so it may be treated as a passive (“they shall [must] be made”).

[16:40]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the seed of.”

[16:40]  ⁵ tn Heb “hand.”

[17:10]  ⁵ tn The verb means “to finish; to complete” and here “to bring to an end.” It is the imperfect following the imperative, and so introduces a purpose clause (as a final imperfect).

[17:10]  ⁶ tn This is another final imperfect in a purpose clause.

[20:24]  ⁶ sn This is the standard poetic expression for death. The bones would be buried, often with the bones of relatives in the same tomb, giving rise to the expression.

[20:24]  ⁷ tn The verb is in the second person plural form, and so it is Moses and Aaron who rebelled, and so now because of that Aaron first and then Moses would die without going into the land.

[20:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “mouth.”

[27:11]  ⁷ tn The expression is חֻקַּת מִשְׁפָּט (khuqqat mishpat, “a statute of judgment”), which means it is a fixed enactment that determines justice. It is one which is established by God.

[31:54]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text does not repeat the word “commanders” here, but it is implied.

[31:54]  ⁹ tn The purpose of the offering was to remind the Lord to remember Israel. But it would also be an encouragement for Israel as they remembered the great victory.

[32:1]  ⁹ sn While the tribes are on the other side of Jordan, the matter of which tribes would settle there has to be discussed. This chapter begins the settlement of Israel into the tribal territories, something to be continued in Joshua. The chapter has the petitions (vv. 1-5), the response by Moses (vv. 6-15), the proposal (vv. 16-27), and the conclusion of the matter (vv. 28-42). For literature on this subject, both critical and conservative, see S. E. Loewenstein, “The Relation of the Settlement of Gad and Reuben in Numbers 32:1-38, Its Background and Its Composition,” Tarbiz 42 (1972): 12-26; J. Mauchline, “Gilead and Gilgal, Some Reflections on the Israelite Occupation of Palestine,” VT 6 (1956): 19-33; and A. Bergmann, “The Israelite Tribe of Half-Manasseh,” JPOS 16 (1936): 224-54.

[32:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the place was a place of/for cattle.”

[32:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the land with its cities in the borders of the cities of the land all around.”

[36:1]  ¹¹ tn The expression is “the heads of the fathers by the family of the Gileadites.”

[36:1]  ¹² tn The Greek and the Syriac add “and before Eleazar the priest.”

[36:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “heads of the fathers.”

[36:2]  ¹² tn The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the Lord had commanded Moses.