Bilangan 4:25

4:25 They must carry the curtains for the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering, the covering of fine leather that is over it, the curtains for the entrance of the tent of meeting,

Bilangan 9:17

9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up ¹  from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place ²  the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.

Bilangan 11:21

11:21 Moses said, “The people around me ³  are 600,000 on foot; ⁴  but you say, ‘I will give them meat, ⁵  that they may eat ⁶  for a whole month.’

Bilangan 11:33

11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, ⁷  the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

Bilangan 13:33

13:33 We even saw the Nephilim ⁸  there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves ⁹  and to them.” ¹⁰ 

Bilangan 14:12

14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, ¹¹  and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

Bilangan 17:8

17:8 On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony – and ¹²  the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds! ¹³ 

Bilangan 18:6

18:6 I myself have chosen ¹⁴  your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the Lord, to perform the duties ¹⁵  of the tent of meeting.

Bilangan 18:30

18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, ¹⁶  ‘When you offer up ¹⁷  the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

Bilangan 21:13

21:13 From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends from the regions ¹⁸  of the Amorites, for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

Bilangan 23:17

23:17 When Balaam ¹⁹  came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”

Bilangan 23:27

23:27 Balak said to Balaam, “Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God ²⁰  to let you curse them for me from there.” ²¹ 

Bilangan 23:29

23:29 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”

Bilangan 31:8-9

31:8 They killed the kings of Midian in addition to those slain – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – five Midianite kings. ²²  They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. ²³ 

31:9 The Israelites took the women of Midian captives along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

[9:17]  ¹ tn The verb in this initial temporal clause is the Niphal infinitive construct.

[9:17]  ² tn Heb “in the place where it settled there”; the relative clause modifies the noun “place,” and the resumptive adverb completes the related idea – “which it settled there” means “where it settled.”

[11:21]  ³ tn Heb “the people who I am in their midst,” i.e., among whom I am.

[11:21]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew sentence stresses the number. The sentence begins “600,000….”

[11:21]  ⁵ tn The word order places the object first here: “Meat I will give them.” This adds to the contrast between the number and the statement of the Lord.

[11:21]  ⁶ tn The verb is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, carrying the sequence from the preceding imperfect tense. However, this verb may be subordinated to the preceding to express a purpose clause.

[11:33]  ⁷ tn The verb is a prefixed conjugation, normally an imperfect tense. But coming after the adverb טֶּרֶם (terem) it is treated as a preterite.

[13:33]  ⁸ tc The Greek version uses gigantes (“giants”) to translate “the Nephilim,” but it does not retain the clause “the sons of Anak are from the Nephilim.”

[13:33]  sn The Nephilim are the legendary giants of antiquity. They are first discussed in Gen 6:4. This forms part of the pessimism of the spies’ report.

[13:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “in our eyes.”

[13:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in their eyes.”

[14:12]  ¹¹ tc The Greek version has “death.”

[17:8]  ¹² tn Here too the deictic particle (“and behold”) is added to draw attention to the sight in a vivid way.

[17:8]  ¹³ sn There is no clear answer why the tribe of Levi had used an almond staff. The almond tree is one of the first to bud in the spring, and its white blossoms are a beautiful sign that winter is over. Its name became a name for “watcher”; Jeremiah plays on this name for God’s watching over his people (1:11-12).

[18:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “taken.”

[18:6]  ¹⁵ tn The infinitive construct in this sentence is from עָבַד (’avad), and so is the noun that serves as its object: to serve the service.

[18:30]  ¹⁶ tn The wording of this verse is confusing; it may be that it is addressed to the priests, telling them how to deal with the offerings of the Levites.

[18:30]  ¹⁷ tn The clause begins with the infinitive construct with its preposition and suffixed subject serving to indicate the temporal clause.

[21:13]  ¹⁸ tn Or “border.”

[23:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:27]  ²⁰ tn Heb “be pleasing in the eyes of God.”

[23:27]  ²¹ sn Balak is stubborn, as indeed Balaam is persistent. But Balak still thinks that if another location were used it just might work. Balaam had actually told Balak in the prophecy that other attempts would fail. But Balak refuses to give up so easily. So he insists they perform the ritual and try again. This time, however, Balaam will change his approach, and this will result in a dramatic outpouring of power on him.

[31:8]  ²² sn Here again we see that there was no unified empire, but Midianite tribal groups.

[31:8]  ²³ sn And what was Balaam doing among the Midianites? The implication is strong. This pagan diviner had to submit to the revealed will of God in the oracles, but he nonetheless could be hired. He had been a part of the attempt to destroy Israel that failed; he then apparently became part of the plan, if not the adviser, to destroy them with sexual immorality and pagan ritual.