Numbers 10:12

10:12 So the Israelites set out ¹  on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 15:32

15:32 When the Israelites were ²  in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. ³ 

Numbers 21:11

21:11 Then they traveled on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, ⁴  in the wilderness that is before Moab, on the eastern side. ⁵ 

Numbers 32:15

32:15 For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon ⁶  them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.” ⁷ 

[10:12]  ¹ sn The verb is the same as the noun: “they journeyed on their journeyings.” This underscores the point of their continual traveling.

[15:32]  ² tn The preterite of the verb “to be” is here subordinated to the next, parallel verb form, to form a temporal clause.

[15:32]  ³ sn For this brief passage, see A. Phillips, “The Case of the Woodgatherer Reconsidered,” VT 19 (1969): 125-28; J. Weingreen, “The Case of the Woodgatherer (Numbers XV 32-36),” VT 16 (1966): 361-64; and B. J. Bamberger, “Revelations of Torah after Sinai,” HUCA 16 (1941): 97-113. Weingreen argues that there is something of the Rabbinic method of setting a fence around the Law here; in other words, if this sin were not punished, the Law would have been violated in greater ways. Gathering of wood, although seemingly harmless, is done with intent to kindle fire, and so reveals a culpable intent.

[21:11]  ³ sn These places are uncertain. Oboth may be some 15 miles (25 km) from the south end of the Dead Sea at a place called ‘Ain el-Weiba. Iye Abarim may be the modern Mahay at the southeastern corner of Moab. See J. Simons, The Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament.

[21:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the rising of the sun.”

[32:15]  ⁴ tn The construction uses a verbal hendiadys with the verb “to add” serving to modify the main verb.

[32:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “and you will destroy all this people.”