Bilangan 26:54

26:54 To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, ¹  and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. ²  To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it. ³ 

Bilangan 28:31

28:31 You are to offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering – they must be unblemished.

Bilangan 31:23

31:23 everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, ⁴  and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.

[26:54]  ¹ tn Heb “to many you will multiply his inheritance.”

[26:54]  ² tn Heb “to a few you will lessen his inheritance.”

[26:54]  ³ tn Heb “according to those that were numbered of him,” meaning, in accordance with the number of people in his clan.

[31:23]  ⁴ sn Purification by fire is unique to this event. Making these metallic objects “pass through the fire” was not only a way of purifying (burning off impurities), but it seems to be a dedicatory rite as well to the Lord and his people. The aspect of passing through the fire is one used by these pagans for child sacrifice.