Numbers 16:40

16:40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of ¹  Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the Lord had spoken by the authority ²  of Moses.

Numbers 25:18

25:18 because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived ³  you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, ⁴  their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.”

[16:40]  ¹ tn Heb “from the seed of.”

[16:40]  ² tn Heb “hand.”

[25:18]  ³ tn This is the same word as that translated “treachery.”

[25:18]  ⁴ sn Cozbi’s father, Zur, was one of five Midianite kings who eventually succumbed to Israel (Num 31:8). When the text gives the name and family of a woman, it is asserting that she is important, at least for social reasons, among her people.