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 18:29-30

18:29 From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due ²  the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’ ³ 

18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, ⁴  ‘When you offer up ⁵  the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

Numbers 9:12

9:12 They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.

Numbers 13:31

13:31 But the men ⁶  who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!”

Numbers 18:32

18:32 And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’” ⁷ 

Numbers 21:1

Victory at Hormah

21:1 ⁸ When the Canaanite king of Arad ⁹  who lived in the Negev ¹⁰  heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.

Numbers 31:49

31:49 and said to him, ¹¹  “Your servants have taken a count ¹²  of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority, ¹³  and not one is missing.

Numbers 18:26

18:26 “You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up ¹⁴  from it as a raised offering to the Lord a tenth of the tithe.

Numbers 18:28

18:28 Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the Lord of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the Lord’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest.

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

[18:29]  ² tn The construction is “every raised offering of the Lord”; the genitive here is probably to be taken as a genitive of worth – the offering that is due the Lord.

[18:29]  ³ tn Or “its hallowed thing.”

[18:30]  ³ tn The wording of this verse is confusing; it may be that it is addressed to the priests, telling them how to deal with the offerings of the Levites.

[18:30]  ⁴ tn The clause begins with the infinitive construct with its preposition and suffixed subject serving to indicate the temporal clause.

[13:31]  ⁴ tn The vav (ו) disjunctive on the noun at the beginning of the clause forms a strong adversative clause here.

[18:32]  ⁵ tn The final clause could also be rendered “in order that you do not die.” The larger section can also be interpreted differently; rather than take it as a warning, it could be taken as an assurance that when they do all of this they will not be profaning it and so will not die (R. K. Harrison, Numbers [WEC], 253).

[21:1]  ⁶ sn This chapter has several events in it: the victory over Arad (vv. 1-3), the plague of serpents (vv. 4-9), the approach to Moab (vv. 10-20), and the victory over Sihon and Og (vv. 21-35). For information, see D. M. Gunn, “The ‘Battle Report’: Oral or Scribal Convention.” JBL 93 (1974): 513-18; and of the extensive literature on the archaeological site, see EAEHL 1:74-89.

[21:1]  ⁷ sn The name Arad probably refers to a place a number of miles away from Tel Arad in southern Israel. The name could also refer to the whole region (like Edom).

[21:1]  ⁸ tn Or “the south”; “Negev” has become a technical name for the southern desert region and is still in use in modern times.

[31:49]  ⁷ tn Heb “to Moses”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[31:49]  ⁸ tn Heb “lifted up the head.”

[31:49]  ⁹ tn Heb “in our hand.”

[18:26]  ⁸ tn The verb in this clause is the Hiphil perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive; it has the same force as an imperfect of instruction: “when…then you are to offer up.”