Numbers 10:30

10:30 But Hobab ¹  said to him, “I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”

Numbers 20:18

20:18 But Edom said to him, “You will not pass through me, ²  or I will come out against ³  you with the sword.”

Numbers 23:6

23:6 So he returned to him, and he was still ⁴  standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

Numbers 32:16

The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites

32:16 Then they came very close to him and said, “We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families, ⁵ 

[10:30]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hobab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:18]  ² tn The imperfect tense here has the nuance of prohibition.

[20:18]  ³ tn Heb “to meet.”

[23:6]  ³ tn The Hebrew text draws the vividness of the scene with the deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) – Balaam returned, and there he was, standing there.

[32:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “our little ones.”