Numbers 27:5

27:5 So Moses brought their case before the Lord.

Numbers 16:10

16:10 He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek ¹  the priesthood also?

Numbers 25:6

25:6 Just then ²  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ³  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ⁴  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ⁵  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

[16:10]  ¹ tn The verb is the Piel perfect. There is no imperfect tense before this, which makes the construction a little difficult. If the vav (ו) is classified as a consecutive, then the form would stand alone as an equivalent to the imperfect, and rendered as a modal nuance such as “would you [now] seek,” or as a progressive imperfect, “are you seeking.” This latter nuance can be obtained by treating it as a regular perfect tense, with an instantaneous nuance: “do you [now] seek.”

[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.