Bilangan 3:36

3:36 The appointed responsibilities of the Merarites included the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, its utensils, plus all the service connected with these things, ¹ 

Bilangan 3:43

3:43 And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.

Bilangan 6:18

6:18 “‘Then the Nazirite must shave his consecrated head ²  at the entrance to the tent of meeting and must take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire ³  where the peace offering is burning. ⁴ 

Bilangan 14:30

14:30 You will by no means enter into the land where ⁵  I swore ⁶  to settle ⁷  you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Bilangan 20:14

Rejection by the Edomites

20:14 ⁸ Moses ⁹  sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: ¹⁰  “Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardships we have experienced, ¹¹ 

Bilangan 21:13

21:13 From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends from the regions ¹²  of the Amorites, for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

Bilangan 28:19

28:19 “‘But you must offer to the Lord an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished. ¹³ 

Bilangan 35:30

35:30 “Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony ¹⁴  of witnesses; but one witness cannot ¹⁵  testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

[3:36]  ¹ tn Heb “and all their service.” This could possibly be a hendiadys: “and all their working tools.” However, the parallel with v. 26 suggests this is a separate phrase.

[6:18]  ² tn Some versions simply interpret this to say that he shaves his hair, for it is the hair that is the sign of the consecration to God. But the text says he shaves his consecrated head. The whole person is obviously consecrated to God – not just the head. But the symbolic act of cutting the hair shows that the vow has been completed (see Acts 21:23-24). The understanding of the importance of the hair in the ancient world has been the subject of considerable study over the years (see R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 436; and J. A. Thompson, “Numbers,” New Bible Commentary: Revised, 177).

[6:18]  ³ sn Some commentators see this burning of the hair as an offering (McNeile, Numbers, 35; G. B. Gray, Numbers [ICC], 68). But others probably with more foundation see it as destroying something that has served a purpose, something that if left alone might be venerated (see R. de Vaux, Israel, 436).

[6:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “which is under the peace offering.” The verse does not mean that the hair had to be put under that sacrifice and directly on the fire.

[14:30]  ⁵ tn The relative pronoun “which” is joined with the resumptive pronoun “in it” to form a smoother reading “where.”

[14:30]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text uses the anthropomorphic expression “I raised my hand” in taking an oath.

[14:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “to cause you to dwell; to cause you to settle.”

[20:14]  ⁸ sn For this particular section, see W. F. Albright, “From the Patriarchs to Moses: 2. Moses out of Egypt,” BA 36 (1973): 57-58; J. R. Bartlett, “The Land of Seir and the Brotherhood of Edom,” JTS 20 (1969): 1-20, and “The Rise and Fall of the Kingdom of Edom,” PEQ 104 (1972): 22-37, and “The Brotherhood of Edom,” JSOT 4 (1977): 2-7.

[20:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “And Moses sent.”

[20:14]  ¹⁰ sn Some modern biblical scholars are convinced, largely through arguments from silence, that there were no unified kingdoms in Edom until the 9th century, and no settlements there before the 12th century, and so the story must be late and largely fabricated. The evidence is beginning to point to the contrary. But the cities and residents of the region would largely be Bedouin, and so leave no real remains.

[20:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “found.”

[21:13]  ¹² tn Or “border.”

[28:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “unblemished they will be to you.” So also in v. 31.

[35:30]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “ at the mouth of”; the metonymy stresses it is at their report.

[35:30]  ¹⁵ tn The verb should be given the nuance of imperfect of potentiality.