Numbers 14:42

14:42 Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be ¹  defeated before your enemies.

Numbers 22:12

22:12 But God said to Balaam, “You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, ²  for they are blessed.” ³ 

Numbers 32:6

Moses’ Response

32:6 Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you ⁴  remain here?

[14:42]  ¹ tn This verb could also be subordinated to the preceding: “that you be not smitten.”

[22:12]  ² tn The two verbs are negated imperfects; they have the nuance of prohibition: You must not go and you must not curse.

[22:12]  ³ tn The word בָּרוּךְ (barukh) is the Qal passive participle, serving here as the predicate adjective after the supplied verb “to be.” The verb means “enrich,” in any way, materially, spiritually, physically. But the indication here is that the blessing includes the promised blessing of the patriarchs, a blessing that gave Israel the land. See further, C. Westermann, Blessing in the Bible and the Life of the Church (OBT).

[32:6]  ³ tn The vav (ו) is a vav disjunctive prefixed to the pronoun; it fits best here as a circumstantial clause, “while you stay here.”