Bilangan 13:32

13:32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging ¹  report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through ²  to investigate is a land that devours ³  its inhabitants. ⁴  All the people we saw there ⁵  are of great stature.

Bilangan 22:3

22:3 And the Moabites were greatly afraid of the people, because they were so numerous. The Moabites were sick with fear because of the Israelites.

Bilangan 24:5

24:5 ‘How ⁶  beautiful are your tents, O Jacob,

and your dwelling places, O Israel!

Bilangan 26:52

26:52 Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

Bilangan 26:56

26:56 Their inheritance must be apportioned ⁷  by lot among the larger and smaller groups.

Bilangan 35:25

35:25 The community must deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community must restore him to the town of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there ⁸  until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the consecrated oil.

[13:32]  ¹ tn Or “an evil report,” i.e., one that was a defamation of the grace of God.

[13:32]  ² tn Heb “which we passed over in it”; the pronoun on the preposition serves as a resumptive pronoun for the relative, and need not be translated literally.

[13:32]  ³ tn The verb is the feminine singular participle from אָכַל (’akhal); it modifies the land as a “devouring land,” a bold figure for the difficulty of living in the place.

[13:32]  ⁴ sn The expression has been interpreted in a number of ways by commentators, such as that the land was infertile, that the Canaanites were cannibals, that it was a land filled with warlike dissensions, or that it denotes a land geared for battle. It may be that they intended the land to seem infertile and insecure.

[13:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “in its midst.”

[24:5]  ⁶ tn Here מָה (mah) has an exclamatory sense: “How!” (see Gen 28:17).

[26:56]  ⁷ tn Heb “divided.”

[35:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “in it.”