Numbers 2:9

2:9 All those numbered of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, are 186,400. They will travel ¹  at the front.

Numbers 24:20

Balaam’s Final Prophecies

24:20 Then Balaam ²  looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: ³ 

“Amalek was the first ⁴  of the nations,

but his end will be that he will perish.”

[2:9]  ¹ tn The verb is נָסָע (nasa’): “to journey, travel, set out,” and here, “to move camp.” Judah will go first, or, literally, at the head of the nation, when they begin to travel.

[24:20]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:20]  ³ tn Heb “and he lifted up his oracle and said.” So also in vv. 21, 23.

[24:20]  ⁴ sn This probably means that it held first place, or it thought that it was “the first of the nations.” It was not the first, either in order or greatness.