Numbers 3:39

3:39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word ¹  of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000. ² 

Numbers 4:27

4:27 “All the service of the Gershonites, whether ³  carrying loads ⁴  or for any of their work, will be at the direction of ⁵  Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks ⁶  as their responsibility.

Numbers 4:49

4:49 According to the word of the Lord they were numbered, ⁷  by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. ⁸  Thus were they numbered by him, ⁹  as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 20:24

20:24 “Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, ¹⁰  for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you ¹¹  rebelled against my word ¹²  at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 22:18

22:18 Balaam replied ¹³  to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment ¹⁴  of the Lord my God ¹⁵  to do less or more.

Numbers 24:13

24:13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond ¹⁶  the commandment ¹⁷  of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, ¹⁸  but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?

Numbers 33:38

33:38 Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor at the command ¹⁹  of the Lord, and he died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt on the first day of the fifth month.

[3:39]  ¹ tn Here again the Hebrew has “at the mouth of,” meaning in accordance with what the Lord said. So also in v. 51.

[3:39]  ² tn The total is a rounded off number; it does not duplicate the precise total of 22,300. Some modern scholars try to explain it by positing an error in v. 28, suggesting that “six” should be read as “three” (שֵׁשׁ [shesh] as שָׁלֹשׁ [shalosh]).

[4:27]  ³ tn The term “whether” is supplied to introduce the enumerated parts of the explanatory phrase.

[4:27]  ⁴ tn Here again is the use of the noun “burden” in the sense of the loads they were to carry (see the use of carts in Num 7:7).

[4:27]  ⁵ tn The expression is literally “upon/at the mouth of” (עַל־פִּי, ’al-pi); it means that the work of these men would be under the direct orders of Aaron and his sons.

[4:27]  ⁶ tn Or “burden.”

[4:49]  ⁵ tn The verb is the simple perfect tense – “he numbered them.” There is no expressed subject; therefore, the verb can be rendered as a passive.

[4:49]  ⁶ tn Or “his burden.”

[4:49]  ⁷ tn The passive form simply reads “those numbered by him.” Because of the cryptic nature of the word, some suggest reading a preterite, “and they were numbered.” This is supported by the Greek, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate. It would follow in the emendation that the relative pronoun be changed to “just as” (כַּאֲשֶׁר, ka’asher). The MT is impossible the way it stands; it can only be rendered into smooth English by adding something that is missing.

[20:24]  ⁷ sn This is the standard poetic expression for death. The bones would be buried, often with the bones of relatives in the same tomb, giving rise to the expression.

[20:24]  ⁸ tn The verb is in the second person plural form, and so it is Moses and Aaron who rebelled, and so now because of that Aaron first and then Moses would die without going into the land.

[20:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “mouth.”

[22:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[22:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “mouth.”

[22:18]  ¹¹ sn In the light of subsequent events one should not take too seriously that Balaam referred to Yahweh as his God. He is referring properly to the deity for which he is acting as the agent.

[24:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I am not able to go beyond.”

[24:13]  ¹² tn Heb “mouth.”

[24:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “from my heart.”

[33:38]  ¹³ tn Heb “mouth.”