Numbers 1:45

1:45 All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered ¹  according to their families.

Numbers 3:12

3:12 “Look, ²  I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of ³  every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

Numbers 5:4

5:4 So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken ⁴  to Moses, so the Israelites did.

Numbers 21:1

Victory at Hormah

21:1 ⁵ When the Canaanite king of Arad ⁶  who lived in the Negev ⁷  heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.

Numbers 21:25

21:25 So Israel took all these cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. ⁸ 

Numbers 23:23

23:23 For there is no spell against ⁹  Jacob,

nor is there any divination against Israel.

At this time ¹⁰  it must be said ¹¹  of Jacob

and of Israel, ‘Look at ¹²  what God has done!’

Numbers 26:2

26:2 “Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, ¹³  everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.” ¹⁴ 

Numbers 36:7

36:7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred ¹⁵  from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

[1:45]  ¹ tn Literally the text has, “and all the numbered of the Israelites were according to their families.” The verb in the sentence is actually without a complement (see v. 46).

[3:12]  ² tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) here carries its deictic force, calling attention to the fact that is being declared. It is underscoring the fact that the Lord himself chose Levi.

[3:12]  ³ tn Literally “in the place of.”

[5:4]  ³ tn The perfect tense is here given a past perfect nuance to stress that the word of the Lord preceded the obedience.

[21:1]  ⁴ 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.

[21:1]  ⁵ 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).

[21:1]  ⁶ tn Or “the south”; “Negev” has become a technical name for the southern desert region and is still in use in modern times.

[21:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “its daughters.”

[23:23]  ⁶ tn Or “in Jacob.” But given the context the meaning “against” is preferable. The words describe two techniques of consulting God; the first has to do with observing omens in general (“enchantments”), and the second with casting lots or arrows of the like (“divinations” [Ezek 21:26]). See N. H. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers (NCB), 295-96.

[23:23]  ⁷ tn The form is the preposition “like, as” and the word for “time” – according to the time, about this time, now.

[23:23]  ⁸ tn The Niphal imperfect here carries the nuance of obligation – one has to say in amazement that God has done something marvelous or “it must be said.”

[23:23]  ⁹ tn The words “look at” are not in the Hebrew text but have been added in the translation for clarity.

[26:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “house of their fathers.”

[26:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “everyone who goes out in the army in Israel.”

[36:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “turned aside.”