Numbers 9:8

9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain ¹  here and I will hear ²  what the Lord will command concerning you.”

Numbers 10:8

10:8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets; and they will be to you for an eternal ordinance throughout your generations.

Numbers 14:25

14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) ³  Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

Numbers 15:16

15:16 One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

Numbers 15:29

15:29 You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.

Numbers 17:4

17:4 You must place them ⁴  in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant ⁵  where I meet with you.

Numbers 18:27

18:27 And your raised offering will be credited ⁶  to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine ⁷  from the winepress.

Numbers 28:25

28:25 On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.

Numbers 28:31

28:31 You are to offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering – they must be unblemished.

Numbers 29:35

29:35 “‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

Numbers 31:18

31:18 But all the young women ⁸  who have not had sexual intercourse with a man ⁹  will be yours. ¹⁰ 

Numbers 32:24

32:24 So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said ¹¹  you would do.”

Numbers 33:53

33:53 You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

Numbers 34:9

34:9 The border will continue to Ziphron, and its direction will be to Hazar Enan. This will be your northern border.

[9:8]  ¹ tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.

[9:8]  ² tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”

[14:25]  ³ sn The judgment on Israel is that they turn back to the desert and not attack the tribes in the land. So a parenthetical clause is inserted to state who was living there. They would surely block the entrance to the land from the south – unless God removed them. And he is not going to do that for Israel.

[17:4]  ⁵ tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of נוּחַ (nuakh, “to rest”), and so “to set at rest, lay, place, put.” The form with the vav (ו) consecutive continues the instruction of the previous verse.

[17:4]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text simply reads “the covenant” or “the testimony.”

[18:27]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Heb “fullness,” meaning the fullness of the harvest, i.e., a full harvest.

[31:18]  ⁹ tn Or “girls.” The Hebrew indicates they would be female children, making the selection easy.

[31:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “who have not known [a] man by lying with a man.”

[31:18]  ¹¹ sn Many contemporary scholars see this story as fictitious, composed by the Jews during the captivity. According to this interpretation, the spoils of war here indicate the wealth of the Jews in captivity, which was to be given to the Levites and priests for the restoration of the sanctuary in Jerusalem. The conclusion drawn from this interpretation is that returning Jews had the same problem as the earlier ones: to gain a foothold in the land. Against this interpretation of the account is a lack of hard evidence, a lack which makes this interpretation appear contrived and subjective. If this was the intent of a later writer, he surely could have stated this more clearly than by making up such a story.

[32:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “that which goes out/has gone out of your mouth.”