Numbers 21:3

21:3 The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, ¹  and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of the place was called ²  Hormah.

Numbers 23:13

23:13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there.”

Numbers 26:3

26:3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River ³  across from Jericho. ⁴  They said,

Numbers 27:8

27:8 And you must tell the Israelites, ‘If a man dies ⁵  and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;

[21:3]  ¹ tc Smr, Greek, and Syriac add “into his hand.”

[21:3]  ² tn In the Hebrew text the verb has no expressed subject, and so here too is made passive. The name “Hormah” is etymologically connected to the verb “utterly destroy,” forming the popular etymology (or paronomasia, a phonetic wordplay capturing the significance of the event).

[26:3]  ³ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity (also in v. 62).

[26:3]  ⁴ map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[27:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “a man, if he dies.”