Numbers 3:12
Context3:12 “Look, 1 I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of 2 every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,
Numbers 3:32
Context3:32 Now the head of all the Levitical leaders 3 was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible 4 for the sanctuary.
Numbers 4:30
Context4:30 You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 26:4
Context26:4 “Number the people 5 from twenty years old and upward, just as the Lord commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.”
Numbers 29:36
Context29:36 But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish,
Numbers 31:26
Context31:26 “You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum 6 of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.


[3:12] 1 tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) here carries its deictic force, calling attention to the fact that is being declared. It is underscoring the fact that the
[3:12] 2 tn Literally “in the place of.”
[3:32] 3 tn The Hebrew construction has “the leader of the leaders of” (וּנְשִׂיא נְשִׂיאֵי, unÿsi’ nÿsi’ey).
[3:32] 4 tn Heb “the keepers of the responsibility” (שֹׁמְרֵי מִשְׁמֶרֶת, shomÿrey mishmeret). The participle is a genitive specifying the duty to which he was appointed (thing possessed); its cognate genitive emphasizes that their responsibility was over the holy place.
[26:4] 5 tn “Number the people” is added here to the text for a smooth reading.
[31:26] 7 tn The idiom here is “take up the head,” meaning take a census, or count the totals.