Numbers 25:6

25:6 Just then ¹  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ²  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ³  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ⁴  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 32:9

32:9 When ⁵  they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter ⁶  the land that the Lord had given ⁷  them.

[25:6]  ¹ tn The verse begins with the deictic particle וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh), pointing out the action that was taking place. It stresses the immediacy of the action to the reader.

[25:6]  ² tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

[25:6]  ³ tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”

[25:6]  ⁴ tn The vav (ו) at the beginning of the clause is a disjunctive because it is prefixed to the nonverbal form. In this context it is best interpreted as a circumstantial clause, stressing that this happened “while” people were weeping over the sin.

[32:9]  ⁵ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the parallel yet chronologically later verb in the next clause.

[32:9]  ⁶ tn The infinitive construct here with lamed (ל) is functioning as a result clause.

[32:9]  ⁷ tn The Lord had not given it yet, but was going to give it. Hence, the perfect should be classified as a perfect of resolve.