Bilangan 8:4

8:4 This is how the lampstand was made: ¹  It was beaten work in gold; ²  from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Bilangan 13:26

The Spies’ Reports

13:26 They came back ³  to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. ⁴  They reported ⁵  to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.

Bilangan 21:8

21:8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks ⁶  at it, he will live.”

Bilangan 32:9

32:9 When ⁷  they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter ⁸  the land that the Lord had given ⁹  them.

¹ tn The Hebrew text literally has “and this is the work of the lampstand,” but that rendering does not convey the sense that it is describing how it was made.

² sn The idea is that it was all hammered from a single plate of gold.

³ tn The construction literally has “and they went and they entered,” which may be smoothed out as a verbal hendiadys, the one verb modifying the other.

⁴ sn Kadesh is Ain Qadeis, about 50 miles (83 km) south of Beer Sheba. It is called Kadesh-barnea in Num 32:8.

⁵ tn Heb “They brought back word”; the verb is the Hiphil preterite of שׁוּב (shuv).

⁶ tn The word order is slightly different in Hebrew: “and it shall be anyone who is bitten when he looks at it he shall live.”

⁷ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the parallel yet chronologically later verb in the next clause.

⁸ tn The infinitive construct here with lamed (ל) is functioning as a result clause.

⁹ tn The Lord had not given it yet, but was going to give it. Hence, the perfect should be classified as a perfect of resolve.