Numbers 14:12
Context14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, 1 and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”
Numbers 14:45
Context14:45 So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped 2 down and attacked them 3 as far as Hormah. 4
Numbers 32:4
Context32:4 the land that the Lord subdued 5 before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”
Numbers 35:16
Context35:16 “But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, 6 he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:24
Context35:24 then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.


[14:12] 1 tc The Greek version has “death.”
[14:45] 3 tn The verb used here means “crush by beating,” or “pounded” them. The Greek text used “cut them in pieces.”
[14:45] 4 tn The name “Hormah” means “destruction”; it is from the word that means “ban, devote” for either destruction or temple use.
[32:4] 3 tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of נָכָה (nakhah), a term that can mean “smite, strike, attack, destroy.”
[35:16] 4 tn the verb is the preterite of “die.” The sentence has :“if…he strikes him and he dies.” The vav (ו) consecutive is showing the natural result of the blow.