Numbers 3:51

3:51 Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 4:37

4:37 These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.

Numbers 4:41

4:41 These were those numbered from the families of the Gershonites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord.

Numbers 4:45

4:45 These are those numbered from the families of the Merarites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.

Numbers 7:5

7:5 “Receive these gifts ¹  from them, that they may be ²  used in doing the work ³  of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man ⁴  as his service requires.” ⁵ 

Numbers 7:8

7:8 and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority ⁶  of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 13:3

13:3 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command ⁷  of the Lord. All of them were leaders ⁸  of the Israelites.

Numbers 16:32

16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods.

Numbers 21:24

21:24 But the Israelites ⁹  defeated him in battle ¹⁰  and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strongly defended.

Numbers 22:28

22:28 Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”

Numbers 23:16

23:16 Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message ¹¹  in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

Numbers 26:10

26:10 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 27:14

27:14 For ¹²  in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you ¹³  rebelled against my command ¹⁴  to show me as holy ¹⁵  before their eyes over the water – the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”

Numbers 35:30

35:30 “Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony ¹⁶  of witnesses; but one witness cannot ¹⁷  testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

Numbers 36:5

Moses’ Decision

36:5 Then Moses gave a ruling ¹⁸  to the Israelites by the word ¹⁹  of the Lord: “What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right.

[7:5]  ¹ tn The object is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied.

[7:5]  ² tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; following the imperative, this could be given an independent volitive translation (“they shall be”), but more fittingly a subordinated translation expressing the purpose of receiving the gifts.

[7:5]  ³ tn The sentence uses the infinitive construct expressing purpose, followed by its cognate accusative: “[that they may be] for doing the work of” (literally, “serving the service of”).

[7:5]  ⁴ tn The noun אִישׁ (’ish) is in apposition to the word “Levites,” and is to be taken in a distributive sense: “to the Levites, [to each] man according to his service.”

[7:5]  ⁵ tn The expression כְּפִי (kÿfi) is “according to the mouth of.” Here, it would say “according to the mouth of his service,” which would mean “what his service calls for.”

[7:8]  ¹ tn Heb “hand.”

[13:3]  ¹ tn Heb “mouth.”

[13:3]  ² tn Heb “heads.”

[21:24]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text has “Israel,” but the verb is plural.

[21:24]  ² tn Heb “with the edge of the sword.”

[23:16]  ¹ tn Heb “word.”

[27:14]  ¹ tn The preposition on the relative pronoun has the force of “because of the fact that.”

[27:14]  ² tn The verb is the second masculine plural form.

[27:14]  ³ tn Heb “mouth.”

[27:14]  ⁴ sn Using the basic meaning of the word קָדַשׁ (qadash, “to be separate, distinct, set apart”), we can understand better what Moses failed to do. He was supposed to have acted in a way that would have shown God to be distinct, different, holy. Instead, he gave the impression that God was capricious and hostile – very human. The leader has to be aware of what image he is conveying to the people.

[35:30]  ¹ tn Heb “ at the mouth of”; the metonymy stresses it is at their report.

[35:30]  ² tn The verb should be given the nuance of imperfect of potentiality.

[36:5]  ¹ tn Heb “commanded.”

[36:5]  ² tn Heb “mouth.”