Bilangan 6:19-20

6:19 And the priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one cake made without yeast from the basket, and one wafer made without yeast, and put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head; ¹  6:20 then the priest must wave them as a wave offering ²  before the Lord; it is a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering. ³  After this the Nazirite may drink ⁴  wine.’

Bilangan 8:12

8:12 When ⁵  the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer ⁶  the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, ⁷  to make atonement for the Levites.

Bilangan 16:5

16:5 Then he said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning the Lord will make known who are his, and who is holy. He will cause that person ⁸  to approach him; the person he has chosen he will cause to approach him.

Bilangan 16:40

16:40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of ⁹  Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the Lord had spoken by the authority ¹⁰  of Moses.

Bilangan 19:19

19:19 And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, ¹¹  and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.

Bilangan 20:8

20:8 “Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and then speak ¹²  to the rock before their eyes. It will pour forth ¹³  its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their beasts water to drink.”

Bilangan 21:5

21:5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we ¹⁴  detest this worthless ¹⁵  food.”

Bilangan 22:4

22:4 So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “Now this mass of people ¹⁶  will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field. Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time.

Bilangan 22:18

22:18 Balaam replied ¹⁷  to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment ¹⁸  of the Lord my God ¹⁹  to do less or more.

Bilangan 24:13

24:13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond ²⁰  the commandment ²¹  of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, ²²  but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?

Bilangan 31:47

31:47 From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

[6:19]  ¹ tn The line does not include the word “head”; it literally has “after the consecrating of himself his consecrated [head].” The infinitive construct is here functioning in the temporal clause with the suffix as the subject and the object following.

[6:20]  ² sn The ritual of lifting the hands filled with the offering and waving them in the presence of the Lord was designed to symbolize the transfer of the offering to God in the sight of all. This concludes the worshiper’s part; the offering now becomes the property of the priest – his priest’s due (or “raised/heave offering”).

[6:20]  ³ sn The “wave offering” may be interpreted as a “special gift” to be transferred to the Lord, and the “heave offering” as a “special contribution” to God – the priest’s due. These two offerings have also inspired a good deal of study.

[6:20]  ⁴ tn The imperfect tense here would then have the nuance of permission. It is not an instruction at this point; rather, the prohibition has been lifted and the person is free to drink wine.

[8:12]  ⁵ tn The clause begins with a vav (ו) on the noun “the Levites,” indicating a disjunctive clause. Here it is clearly a subordinate clause prior to the instruction for Moses, and so translated as a circumstantial clause of time.

[8:12]  ⁶ tn The imperative is from the verb “to do; to make,” but in the sentence it clearly means to sacrifice the animals.

[8:12]  ⁷ sn The “purification offering” cleansed the tabernacle from impurity, and the burnt offering atoned by nullifying and removing the effects of sin in the Levites.

[16:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “him.”

[16:40]  ⁹ tn Heb “from the seed of.”

[16:40]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “hand.”

[19:19]  ¹¹ tn The construction uses a simple Piel of חָטָא (khata’, “to purify”) with a pronominal suffix – “he shall purify him.” Some commentators take this to mean that after he sprinkles the unclean then he must purify himself. But that would not be the most natural way to read this form.

[20:8]  ¹² tn The verb is the Piel perfect with vav (ו) consecutive, following the two imperatives in the verse. Here is the focus of the instruction for Moses.

[20:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “give.” The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive, as are the next two in the verse. These are not now equal to the imperatives, but imperfects, showing the results of speaking to the rock: “speak…and it will…and so you will….”

[21:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “our souls.”

[21:5]  ¹⁵ tn The Israelites’ opinion about the manna was clear enough – “worthless.” The word used is קְלֹקֵל (qÿloqel, “good for nothing, worthless, miserable”).

[22:4]  ¹⁶ tn The word is simply “company,” but in the context he must mean a vast company – a horde of people.

[22:18]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[22:18]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “mouth.”

[22:18]  ¹⁹ sn In the light of subsequent events one should not take too seriously that Balaam referred to Yahweh as his God. He is referring properly to the deity for which he is acting as the agent.

[24:13]  ²⁰ tn Heb “I am not able to go beyond.”

[24:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “mouth.”

[24:13]  ²² tn Heb “from my heart.”