Numbers 10:10

10:10 “Also in the time when you rejoice, such as ¹  on your appointed festivals or ²  at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may ³  become ⁴  a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”

Numbers 14:14

14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants ⁵  of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, ⁶  that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

[10:10]  ¹ tn The conjunction may be taken as explicative or epexegetical, and so rendered “namely; even; that is,” or it may be taken as emphatic conjunction, and translated “especially.”

[10:10]  ² tn The vav (ו) is taken here in its alternative use and translated “or.”

[10:10]  ³ tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. After the instruction imperfects, this form could be given the same nuance, or more likely, subordinated as a purpose or result clause.

[10:10]  ⁴ tn The verb “to be” (הָיָה, hayah) has the meaning “to become” when followed by the preposition lamed (ל).

[14:14]  ⁵ tn The singular participle is to be taken here as a collective, representing all the inhabitants of the land.

[14:14]  ⁶ tn “Face to face” is literally “eye to eye.” It only occurs elsewhere in Isa 52:8. This expresses the closest communication possible.