Numbers 12:10

12:10 When ¹  the cloud departed from above the tent, Miriam became ²  leprous ³  as snow. Then Aaron looked at ⁴  Miriam, and she was leprous!

Numbers 23:6

23:6 So he returned to him, and he was still ⁵  standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

Numbers 24:11

24:11 So now, go back where you came from! ⁶  I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”

Numbers 16:42

16:42 When the community assembled ⁷  against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting – and ⁸  the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

Numbers 20:16

20:16 So when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, ⁹  and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now ¹⁰  we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country. ¹¹ 

Numbers 23:11

Balaam Relocates

23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary ¹²  you have only blessed them!” ¹³ 

Numbers 32:14

32:14 Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites.

Numbers 16:47

16:47 So Aaron did ¹⁴  as Moses commanded ¹⁵  and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people.

Numbers 17:8

17:8 On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony – and ¹⁶  the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds! ¹⁷ 

Numbers 24:10

24:10 Then Balak became very angry at Balaam, and he struck his hands together. ¹⁸  Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have done nothing but bless ¹⁹  them these three times!

Numbers 25:6

25:6 Just then ²⁰  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ²¹  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ²²  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ²³  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 32:1

The Petition of the Reubenites and Gadites

32:1 ²⁴ Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle, ²⁵ 

[12:10]  ¹ tn The disjunctive vav (ו) is here introducing a circumstantial clause of time.

[12:10]  ² tn There is no verb “became” in this line. The second half of the line is introduced with the particle הִנֵה (hinneh, “look, behold”) in its archaic sense. This deictic use is intended to make the reader focus on Miriam as well.

[12:10]  ³ sn The word “leprosy” and “leprous” covers a wide variety of skin diseases, and need not be limited to the actual disease of leprosy known today as Hansen’s disease. The description of it here has to do with snow, either the whiteness or the wetness. If that is the case then there would be open wounds and sores – like Job’s illness (see M. Noth, Numbers [OTL], 95-96).

[12:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “turned to.”

[23:6]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text draws the vividness of the scene with the deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) – Balaam returned, and there he was, standing there.

[24:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “flee to your place.”

[16:42]  ¹³ tn The temporal clause is constructed with the temporal indicator (“and it was”) followed by the Niphal infinitive construct and preposition.

[16:42]  ¹⁴ tn The verse uses וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and behold”). This is the deictic particle – it is used to point things out, suddenly calling attention to them, as if the reader were there. The people turned to look toward the tent – and there is the cloud!

[20:16]  ¹⁷ tn The word could be rendered “angel” or “messenger.” Some ambiguity may be intended in this report.

[20:16]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew text uses הִנֵּה (hinneh) to emphasize the “here and now” aspect of the report to Edom.

[20:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “your border.”

[23:11]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew text uses הִנֵּה (hinneh) here to stress the contrast.

[23:11]  ²² tn The construction is emphatic, using the perfect tense and the infinitive absolute to give it the emphasis. It would have the force of “you have done nothing but bless,” or “you have indeed blessed.” The construction is reminiscent of the call of Abram and the promise of the blessing in such elaborate terms.

[16:47]  ²⁵ tn Heb “took.”

[16:47]  ²⁶ tn Or “had spoken” (NASB); NRSV “had ordered.”

[17:8]  ²⁹ tn Here too the deictic particle (“and behold”) is added to draw attention to the sight in a vivid way.

[17:8]  ³⁰ sn There is no clear answer why the tribe of Levi had used an almond staff. The almond tree is one of the first to bud in the spring, and its white blossoms are a beautiful sign that winter is over. Its name became a name for “watcher”; Jeremiah plays on this name for God’s watching over his people (1:11-12).

[24:10]  ³³ sn This is apparently a sign of contempt or derision (see Job 27:23; and Lam 2:15).

[24:10]  ³⁴ tn The construction is emphatic, using the infinitive absolute with the perfect tense for “bless.”

[25:6]  ³⁷ tn The verse begins with the deictic particle וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh), pointing out the action that was taking place. It stresses the immediacy of the action to the reader.

[25:6]  ³⁸ tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

[25:6]  ³⁹ tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”

[25:6]  ⁴⁰ tn The vav (ו) at the beginning of the clause is a disjunctive because it is prefixed to the nonverbal form. In this context it is best interpreted as a circumstantial clause, stressing that this happened “while” people were weeping over the sin.

[32:1]  ⁴¹ sn While the tribes are on the other side of Jordan, the matter of which tribes would settle there has to be discussed. This chapter begins the settlement of Israel into the tribal territories, something to be continued in Joshua. The chapter has the petitions (vv. 1-5), the response by Moses (vv. 6-15), the proposal (vv. 16-27), and the conclusion of the matter (vv. 28-42). For literature on this subject, both critical and conservative, see S. E. Loewenstein, “The Relation of the Settlement of Gad and Reuben in Numbers 32:1-38, Its Background and Its Composition,” Tarbiz 42 (1972): 12-26; J. Mauchline, “Gilead and Gilgal, Some Reflections on the Israelite Occupation of Palestine,” VT 6 (1956): 19-33; and A. Bergmann, “The Israelite Tribe of Half-Manasseh,” JPOS 16 (1936): 224-54.

[32:1]  ⁴² tn Heb “the place was a place of/for cattle.”