Numbers 12:3

12:3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, ¹  more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

Numbers 21:17

21:17 Then Israel sang ²  this song:

“Spring up, O well, sing to it!

[12:3]  ¹ tc The spelling of the word is a Kethib-Qere reading with only a slight difference between the two.

[21:17]  ² tn After the adverb “then” the prefixed conjugation has the preterite force. For the archaic constructions, see D. N. Freedman, “Archaic Forms in Early Hebrew Poetry,” ZAW 72 (1960): 101-7. The poem shows all the marks of being ancient.