Numbers 7:3

7:3 They brought ¹  their offering before the Lord, six covered carts ²  and twelve oxen – one cart for every two of the leaders, and an ox for each one; and they presented them in front of the tabernacle.

Numbers 25:6

25:6 Just then ³  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ⁴  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ⁵  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ⁶  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 36:8

36:8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite ⁷  may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

[7:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and they brought.”

[7:3]  ² sn For a discussion and drawings, see W. S. McCullough, IDB 1:540. But see also D. J. Wiseman, IBD 1:254.

[25:6]  ³ tn The verse begins with the deictic particle וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh), pointing out the action that was taking place. It stresses the immediacy of the action to the reader.

[25:6]  ⁴ tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

[25:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”

[25:6]  ⁶ tn The vav (ו) at the beginning of the clause is a disjunctive because it is prefixed to the nonverbal form. In this context it is best interpreted as a circumstantial clause, stressing that this happened “while” people were weeping over the sin.

[36:8]  ⁵ tn The subject is “Israelites” and the verb is plural to agree with it, but the idea is collective as the word for “man” indicates: “so that the Israelites may possess – [each] man the inheritance of his fathers.”