Bilangan 8:17

8:17 For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed ¹  all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself.

Bilangan 9:6

9:6 It happened that some men ²  who were ceremonially defiled ³  by the dead body of a man ⁴  could not keep ⁵  the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Bilangan 11:8

11:8 And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. ⁶ 

[8:17]  ¹ tn The idiomatic “on the day of” precedes the infinitive construct of נָכָה (nakhah) to form the temporal clause: “in the day of my striking…” becomes “when I struck.”

[9:6]  ² tn In the Hebrew text the noun has no definite article, and so it signifies “some” or “certain” men.

[9:6]  ³ tn The meaning, of course, is to be ceremonially unclean, and therefore disqualified from entering the sanctuary.

[9:6]  ⁴ tn Or “a human corpse” (so NAB, NKJV). So also in v.7; cf. v. 10.

[9:6]  ⁵ tn This clause begins with the vav (ו) conjunction and negative before the perfect tense. Here is the main verb of the sentence: They were not able to observe the Passover. The first part of the verse provides the explanation for their problem.

[11:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “And its taste was like the taste of fresh olive oil.”