Bilangan 16:39

16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.

Bilangan 16:41-42

16:41 But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord’s people!” ¹  16:42 When the community assembled ²  against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting – and ³  the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

Bilangan 17:5

17:5 And the staff of the man whom I choose will blossom; so I will rid myself of the complaints of the Israelites, which they murmur against you.”

Bilangan 17:8-9

17:8 On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony – and ⁴  the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds! ⁵  17:9 So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the Israelites. They looked at them, ⁶  and each man took his staff.

Bilangan 30:3

Vows Made by Single Women

30:3 “If a young ⁷  woman who is still living ⁸  in her father’s house makes a vow to the Lord or places herself under an obligation,

Bilangan 30:6

Vows Made by Married Women

30:6 “And if she marries a husband while under a vow, ⁹  or she uttered ¹⁰  anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,

Bilangan 30:8

30:8 But if when her husband hears it he overrules her, then he will nullify ¹¹  the vow she has taken, ¹²  and whatever she uttered impulsively which she has pledged for herself. And the Lord will release her from it.

Bilangan 30:11

30:11 and her husband heard about it, but remained silent about her, and did not overrule her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation which she pledged for herself will stand.

Bilangan 30:14

30:14 But if her husband remains completely silent ¹³  about her from day to day, he thus confirms all her vows or all her obligations which she is under; he confirms them because he remained silent about when he heard them.

Bilangan 30:16

30:16 These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses, relating to ¹⁴  a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.

[16:41]  ¹ sn The whole congregation here is trying to project its guilt on Moses and Aaron. It was they and their rebellion that brought about the deaths, not Moses and Aaron. The Lord had punished the sinners. The fact that the leaders had organized a rebellion against the Lord was forgotten by these people. The point here is that the Israelites had learned nothing of spiritual value from the event.

[16:42]  ² tn The temporal clause is constructed with the temporal indicator (“and it was”) followed by the Niphal infinitive construct and preposition.

[16:42]  ³ tn The verse uses וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and behold”). This is the deictic particle – it is used to point things out, suddenly calling attention to them, as if the reader were there. The people turned to look toward the tent – and there is the cloud!

[17:8]  ⁴ tn Here too the deictic particle (“and behold”) is added to draw attention to the sight in a vivid way.

[17:8]  ⁵ 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).

[17:9]  ⁶ tn The words “at them” are not in the Hebrew text, but they have been added in the translation for clarity.

[30:3]  ⁷ tn The qualification comes at the end of the verse, and simply says “in her youth.”

[30:3]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text just has “in her father’s house” and not “who is still living,” but that is the meaning of the line.

[30:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “and her vows are upon her.” It may be that the woman gets married while her vows are still unfulfilled.

[30:6]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text indicates that this would be some impetuous vow that she uttered with her lips, a vow that her husband, whether new or existing, would not approve of. Several translate it “a binding obligation rashly uttered.”

[30:8]  ¹¹ tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive from the verb פָּרַר (parar, “to annul”). The verb functions here as the equivalent of an imperfect tense; here it is the apodosis following the conditional clause – if this is the case, then this is what will happen.

[30:8]  ¹² tn Heb “which [she is] under it.”

[30:14]  ¹³ tn The sentence uses the infinitive absolute to strengthen the idea.

[30:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “between.”