Bilangan 18:4

18:4 They must join ¹  with you, and they will be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent, but no unauthorized person ²  may approach you.

Bilangan 22:2

22:2 Balak son of Zippor saw all that the Israelites had done to the Amorites.

Bilangan 23:11

Balaam Relocates

23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary ³  you have only blessed them!” ⁴ 

Bilangan 23:30

23:30 So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Bilangan 24:18

24:18 Edom will be a possession,

Seir, ⁵  his enemies, will also be a possession;

but Israel will act valiantly.

Bilangan 30:1

Vows Made by Men

30:1 ⁶ Moses told the leaders ⁷  of the tribes concerning the Israelites, “This is what ⁸  the Lord has commanded:

Bilangan 32:31

32:31 Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the Lord has spoken. ⁹ 

[18:4]  ¹ tn Now the sentence uses the Niphal perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive from the same root לָוָה (lavah).

[18:4]  ² tn The word is “stranger, alien,” but it can also mean Israelites here.

[23:11]  ³ tn The Hebrew text uses הִנֵּה (hinneh) here to stress the contrast.

[23:11]  ⁴ tn The construction is emphatic, using the perfect tense and the infinitive absolute to give it the emphasis. It would have the force of “you have done nothing but bless,” or “you have indeed blessed.” The construction is reminiscent of the call of Abram and the promise of the blessing in such elaborate terms.

[24:18]  ⁵ sn Seir is the chief mountain range of Edom (Deut 33:2), and so the reference here is to the general area of Edom.

[30:1]  ⁶ sn Num 30 deals with vows that are different than the vows discussed in Lev 27 and Num 6. The material is placed here after all the rulings of the offerings, but it could have been revealed to Moses at any time, such as the Nazirite vows, or the question of the daughters’ inheritance. The logic of placing it here may be that a festival was the ideal place for discharging a vow. For additional material on vows, see R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 465-66.

[30:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “heads.”

[30:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “This is the word which.”

[32:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “that which the Lord has spoken to your servants, thus we will do.”