Numbers 22:15

Balaam Accompanies the Moabite Princes

22:15 Balak again sent princes, ¹  more numerous and more distinguished than the first. ² 

Numbers 32:15

32:15 For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon ³  them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.” ⁴ 

Numbers 22:25

22:25 And when the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she pressed herself into the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. So he beat her again. ⁵ 

[22:15]  ¹ tn The construction is a verbal hendiadys. It uses the Hiphil preterite of the verb “to add” followed by the Qal infinitive “to send.” The infinitive becomes the main verb, and the preterite an adverb: “he added to send” means “he sent again.”

[22:15]  ² tn Heb “than these.”

[32:15]  ³ tn The construction uses a verbal hendiadys with the verb “to add” serving to modify the main verb.

[32:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “and you will destroy all this people.”

[22:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “he added to beat her,” another verbal hendiadys.