Numbers 3:28
Context3:28 Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care 1 of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:43
Context3:43 And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.
Numbers 3:50
Context3:50 From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
Numbers 7:86
Context7:86 The twelve gold pans full of incense weighed 10 shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel; all the gold of the pans weighed 120 shekels.
Numbers 11:21
Context11:21 Moses said, “The people around me 2 are 600,000 on foot; 3 but you say, ‘I will give them meat, 4 that they may eat 5 for a whole month.’
Numbers 16:2
Context16:2 and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders 6 of the community, chosen from the assembly, 7 famous men. 8
Numbers 16:17
Context16:17 And each of you 9 take his censer, put 10 incense in it, and then each of you present his censer before the Lord: 250 censers, along with you, and Aaron – each of you with his censer.”
Numbers 16:49
Context16:49 Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.
Numbers 26:10
Context26:10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.
Numbers 26:37
Context26:37 These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. 11 These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.
Numbers 31:32
Context31:32 The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men 12 had gathered 13 was 675,000 sheep,


[3:28] 1 tn The construction here is a little different. The Hebrew text uses the participle in construct plural: שֹׁמְרֵי (shomÿrey, literally “keepers of”). The form specifies the duties of the 8,600 Kohathites. The genitive that follows this participle is the cognate מִשְׁמֶרֶת (mishmeret) that has been used before. So the expression indicates that they were responsible for the care of this part of the cult center. There is no reason to delete one of the forms (as does J. A. Paterson, Numbers, 42), for the repetition stresses the central importance of their work.
[11:21] 2 tn Heb “the people who I am in their midst,” i.e., among whom I am.
[11:21] 3 tn The Hebrew sentence stresses the number. The sentence begins “600,000….”
[11:21] 4 tn The word order places the object first here: “Meat I will give them.” This adds to the contrast between the number and the statement of the
[11:21] 5 tn The verb is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, carrying the sequence from the preceding imperfect tense. However, this verb may be subordinated to the preceding to express a purpose clause.
[16:2] 3 tn Heb “princes” (so KJV, ASV).
[16:2] 4 tn These men must have been counselors or judges of some kind.
[16:2] 5 tn Heb “men of name,” or “men of renown.”
[16:17] 4 tn Heb “and take, a man, his censer.”
[16:17] 5 tn This verb and the following one are both perfect tenses with vav (ו) consecutives. Following the imperative they carry the same force, but in sequence.
[26:37] 5 sn This is a significant reduction from the first count of 40,500.