Numbers 14:12

14:12 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 16:45

16:45 “Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. ² 

Numbers 17:12-13

17:12 The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! ³  We perish, we all perish! 17:13 (17:28) ⁴  Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the Lord will die! Are we all to die?” ⁵ 

[14:12]  ¹ tc The Greek version has “death.”

[16:45]  ² tn Heb “they fell on their faces.”

[17:12]  ³ tn The use of הֵן (hen) and the perfect tense in the nuance of a prophetic perfect expresses their conviction that they were bound to die – it was certain (see GKC 312-13 §106.n).

[17:13]  ⁴ sn Num 17:13 in the English Bible is 17:28 in the Hebrew text (BHS). See also the note on 16:36.

[17:13]  ⁵ tn The verse stresses the completeness of their death: “will we be consumed by dying” (הַאִם תַּמְנוּ לִגְוֹעַ, ha’im tamnu ligvoa’).