Numbers 17:11

17:11 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him – this is what he did.

Numbers 20:27

20:27 So Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight ¹  of the whole community.

Numbers 23:2

23:2 So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each ²  altar a bull and a ram.

Numbers 23:30

23:30 So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 31:31

31:31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 8:3

8:3 And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 21:9

21:9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived. ³ 

Numbers 27:22

27:22 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him; he took Joshua and set ⁴  him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community.

Numbers 8:20

8:20 So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

[20:27]  ¹ tn Heb “eyes.”

[23:2]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text has “on the altar,” but since there were seven of each animal and seven altars, the implication is that this means on each altar.

[21:9]  ¹ sn The image of the snake was to be a symbol of the curse that the Israelites were experiencing; by lifting the snake up on a pole Moses was indicating that the curse would be drawn away from the people – if they looked to it, which was a sign of faith. This symbol was later stored in the temple, until it became an object of worship and had to be removed (2 Kgs 18:4). Jesus, of course, alluded to it and used it as an illustration of his own mission. He would become the curse, and be lifted up, so that people who looked by faith to him would live (John 3:14). For further material, see D. J. Wiseman, “Flying Serpents,” TynBul 23 (1972): 108-10; and K. R. Joines, “The Bronze Serpent in the Israelite Cult,” JBL 87 (1968): 245-56.

[27:22]  ¹ tn Heb “stood.”