Discovery BoxNumbers 3:40
Context3:40 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take 1 the number of their names.
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 4:5
Context4:5 When it is time for the camp to journey, 2 Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the testimony with it.
Numbers 18:27
Context18:27 And your raised offering will be credited 3 to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine 4 from the winepress.
Numbers 26:5
Context26:5 Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from 5 Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
Numbers 28:15
Context28:15 And one male goat 6 must be offered to the Lord as a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
Numbers 36:7
Context36:7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred 7 from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.
[3:40] 1 tn The verb נָשָׂא (nasa’, “take”) has here the sense of collect, take a census, or register the names.
[4:5] 2 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive construct in an adverbial clause of time; literally it says “in the journeying of the camp.” The genitive in such constructions is usually the subject. Here the implication is that people would be preparing to transport the camp and its equipment.
[18:27] 3 tn The verb is חָשַׁב (khashav, “to reckon; to count; to think”); it is the same verb used for “crediting” Abram with righteousness. Here the tithe of the priests will be counted as if it were a regular tithe.
[18:27] 4 tn Heb “fullness,” meaning the fullness of the harvest, i.e., a full harvest.
[26:5] 4 tc The Hebrew text has no preposition here, but one has been supplied in the translation for clarity. Cf. vv. 23, 30, 31, 32.
