Numbers 14:15

14:15 If you kill ¹  this entire people at once, ²  then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

Numbers 14:14

14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants ³  of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, ⁴  that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

[14:15]  ¹ tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of מוּת (mut), וְהֵמַתָּה (vÿhemattah). The vav (ו) consecutive makes this also a future time sequence verb, but again in a conditional clause.

[14:15]  ² tn Heb “as one man.”

[14:14]  ³ tn The singular participle is to be taken here as a collective, representing all the inhabitants of the land.

[14:14]  ⁴ tn “Face to face” is literally “eye to eye.” It only occurs elsewhere in Isa 52:8. This expresses the closest communication possible.