10:33 So they traveled from the mountain of the Lord three days’ journey; 1 and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.
24:20 Then Balaam 3 looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: 4
“Amalek was the first 5 of the nations,
but his end will be that he will perish.”
1 tn The phrase “a journey of three days” is made up of the adverbial accusative qualified with the genitives.
2 tn Heb “its daughters.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “and he lifted up his oracle and said.” So also in vv. 21, 23.
5 sn This probably means that it held first place, or it thought that it was “the first of the nations.” It was not the first, either in order or greatness.