Bilangan 5:17

5:17 The priest will then take holy water ¹  in a pottery jar, and take some ²  of the dust ³  that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.

Bilangan 8:4

8:4 This is how the lampstand was made: ⁴  It was beaten work in gold; ⁵  from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Bilangan 9:7

9:7 And those men said to him, “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”

Bilangan 35:30

35:30 “Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony ⁶  of witnesses; but one witness cannot ⁷  testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

[5:17]  ¹ tn This is probably water taken from the large bronze basin in the courtyard. It is water set apart for sacred service. “Clean water” (so NEB) does not capture the sense very well, but it does have the support of the Greek that has “pure running water.” That pure water would no doubt be from the bronze basin anyway.

[5:17]  ² tn Heb “from.” The preposition is used here with a partitive sense.

[5:17]  ³ sn The dust may have come from the sanctuary floor, but it is still dust, and therefore would have all the pollutants in it.

[8:4]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text literally has “and this is the work of the lampstand,” but that rendering does not convey the sense that it is describing how it was made.

[8:4]  ⁵ sn The idea is that it was all hammered from a single plate of gold.

[35:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “ at the mouth of”; the metonymy stresses it is at their report.

[35:30]  ⁷ tn The verb should be given the nuance of imperfect of potentiality.