Numbers 1:4

1:4 And to help you ¹  there is to be a man from each ²  tribe, each man ³  the head ⁴  of his family. ⁵ 

Numbers 3:47

3:47 collect ⁶  five shekels for each ⁷  one individually; you are to collect ⁸  this amount ⁹  in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs). ¹⁰ 

Numbers 9:8

9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain ¹¹  here and I will hear ¹²  what the Lord will command concerning you.”

Numbers 15:22

Rules for Unintentional Offenses

15:22 ¹³ “‘If you ¹⁴  sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses –

Numbers 32:6

Moses’ Response

32:6 Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you ¹⁵  remain here?

Numbers 32:24

32:24 So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said ¹⁶  you would do.”

Numbers 33:56

33:56 And what I intended to do to them I will do to you.”

Numbers 35:7

35:7 “So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and with you.”

[1:4]  ² tn The construction uses the noun in a distributive sense: “a man, a man for a tribe,” meaning a man for each tribe.

[1:4]  ³ tn The clause expresses a distributive function, “a man” means “each man.”

[1:4]  ⁴ sn See J. R. Bartlett, “The Use of the Word ראשׁ as a Title in the Old Testament,” VT 19 (1969): 1-10.

[1:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “the house of his fathers.”

[3:47]  ⁶ tn The verb again is the perfect tense in sequence; the meaning of “take” may be interpreted here with the sense of “collect.”

[3:47]  ⁷ tn The idea is expressed simply by repetition: “take five, five, shekels according to the skull.” They were to collect five shekels for each individual.

[3:47]  ⁸ tn The verb form now is the imperfect of instruction or legislation.

[3:47]  ⁹ tn Heb “them,” referring to the five shekels.

[3:47]  ¹⁰ sn The sanctuary shekel was first mentioned in Exod 30:13. The half-shekel of Exod 38:26 would then be 10 gerahs. Consequently, the calculations would indicate that five shekels was about two ounces of silver for each person. See R. B. Y. Scott, “Weights and Measures of the Bible,” BA 22 (1951): 22-40, and “The Scale-Weights from Ophel, 1963-1964,” PEQ 97 (1965): 128-39.

[9:8]  ¹¹ tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.

[9:8]  ¹² tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”

[15:22]  ¹⁶ sn These regulations supplement what was already ruled on in the Levitical code for the purification and reparation offerings. See those rulings in Lev 4-7 for all the details. Some biblical scholars view the rules in Leviticus as more elaborate and therefore later. However, this probably represents a misunderstanding of the purpose of each collection.

[15:22]  ¹⁷ tn The verb is the plural imperfect; the sin discussed here is a sin committed by the community, or the larger part of the community.

[32:6]  ²¹ tn The vav (ו) is a vav disjunctive prefixed to the pronoun; it fits best here as a circumstantial clause, “while you stay here.”

[32:24]  ²⁶ tn Heb “that which goes out/has gone out of your mouth.”