Discovery BoxNumbers 10:33
Context10:33 So they traveled from the mountain of the Lord three days’ journey; 1 and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.
Numbers 13:17
Context13:17 When Moses sent 2 them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, 3 and then go up into the hill country
Numbers 13:29
Context13:29 The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks 4 of the Jordan.” 5
Numbers 14:40
Context14:40 And early 6 in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, 7 saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, 8 for we have sinned.” 9
Numbers 14:44
Context14:44 But they dared 10 to go up to the crest of the hill, although 11 neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp.
Numbers 20:23
Context20:23 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom. He said:
Numbers 21:4
Context21:4 Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, 12 to go around the land of Edom, but the people 13 became impatient along the way.
Numbers 27:12
Context27:12 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, 15 and see 16 the land I have given 17 to the Israelites.
[10:33] 1 tn The phrase “a journey of three days” is made up of the adverbial accusative qualified with the genitives.
[13:17] 2 tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the next verb of the same formation to express a temporal clause.
[13:17] 3 tn The instructions had them first go up into the southern desert of the land, and after passing through that, into the hill country of the Canaanites. The text could be rendered “into the Negev” as well as “through the Negev.”
[13:29] 3 tn Heb “by the side [hand] of.”
[13:29] 4 sn For more discussion on these people groups, see D. J. Wiseman, ed., Peoples of Old Testament Times.
[14:40] 4 tn The verb וַיַּשְׁכִּמוּ (vayyashkimu) is often found in a verbal hendiadys construction: “They rose early…and they went up” means “they went up early.”
[14:40] 5 tn The Hebrew text says literally “the top of the hill,” but judging from the location and the terrain it probably means the heights of the hill country.
[14:40] 6 tn The verb is simply “said,” but it means the place that the
[14:40] 7 sn Their sin was unbelief. They could have gone and conquered the area if they had trusted the
[14:44] 5 tn N. H. Snaith compares Arabic ’afala (“to swell”) and gafala (“reckless, headstrong”; Leviticus and Numbers [NCB], 248). The wordעֹפֶל (’ofel) means a “rounded hill” or a “tumor.” The idea behind the verb may be that of “swelling,” and so “act presumptuously.”
[14:44] 6 tn The disjunctive vav (ו) here introduces a circumstantial clause; the most appropriate one here would be the concessive “although.”
[21:4] 6 tn The “Red Sea” is the general designation for the bodies of water on either side of the Sinai peninsula, even though they are technically gulfs from the Red Sea.
[21:4] 7 tn Heb “the soul of the people,” expressing the innermost being of the people as they became frustrated.
[27:12] 7 sn See further J. Lindblom, “Lot Casting in the Old Testament,” VT 12 (1962): 164-78; E. Lipinski, “Urim and Thummim,” VT 20 (1970): 495-96; and S. E. Loewenstamm, “The Death of Moses,” Tarbiz 27 (1957/58): 142-57.
[27:12] 8 tc The Greek version adds “which is Mount Nebo.” This is a typical scribal change to harmonize two passages.
[27:12] 9 tn The imperative could be subordinated to the first to provide a purpose clause, although a second instruction fits well enough.
[27:12] 10 tn This perfect tense would best be classified as a perfect of resolve: “which I have decided to give.” God had not yet given the land to them, but it was certain he would.
