Numbers 8:2

8:2 “Speak to Aaron and tell him, ‘When you set up ¹  the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light ²  in front of the lampstand.’”

Numbers 12:15

12:15 So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in. ³ 

Numbers 19:4

19:4 Eleazar the priest is to take ⁴  some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times ⁵  directly in front of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 19:14

19:14 “‘This is the law: When a man dies ⁶  in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

Numbers 23:4

23:4 Then God met Balaam, who ⁷  said to him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

Numbers 23:14

23:14 So Balak brought Balaam ⁸  to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, ⁹  where ¹⁰  he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 28:11

Monthly Offerings

28:11 “‘On the first day of each month ¹¹  you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

Numbers 28:27

28:27 But you must offer as the burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs one year old,

Numbers 29:2

29:2 You must offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old without blemish.

Numbers 29:36

29:36 But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish,

[8:2]  ¹ tn The verb is עָלָה (’alah). The Hiphil infinitive construct functions in a temporal clause. The idea of arranging the lamps on the lampstand certainly involved raising the lamps and placing them on the tops of each shaft and branch. Some have taken the idea to mean cause the flame to go up, or light the lamps.

[8:2]  ² tn The imperfect tense forms part of the instruction, and so the translation has to indicate that. The instruction would seem obvious, but the light was to shine in the area immediately in front of the lampstand, so that it would illumine the way and illumine the table that was across the room (hence, “in front of”).

[12:15]  ³ tn The clause has the Niphal infinitive construct after a temporal preposition.

[19:4]  ⁵ tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it functions here as the equivalent of the imperfect of instruction.

[19:4]  ⁶ sn Seven is a number with religious significance; it is often required in sacrificial ritual for atonement or for purification.

[19:14]  ⁷ tn The word order gives the classification and then the condition: “a man, when he dies….”

[23:4]  ⁹ tn The relative pronoun is added here in place of the conjunction to clarify that Balaam is speaking to God and not vice versa.

[23:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he brought him”; the referents (Balak and Balaam) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:14]  ¹² tn Some scholars do not translate this word as “Pisgah,” but rather as a “lookout post” or an “elevated place.”

[23:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he built.”

[28:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “of your months.”