Bilangan 12:14

12:14 The Lord said to Moses, “If her father had only spit ¹  in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again.”

Bilangan 20:5

20:5 Why ²  have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to ³  this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”

[12:14]  ¹ tn The form is intensified by the infinitive absolute, but here the infinitive strengthens not simply the verbal idea but the conditional cause construction as well.

[20:5]  ² tn Heb “and why.”

[20:5]  ³ tn Here also the infinitive construct (Hiphil) forms the subordinate clause of the preceding interrogative clause.