Bilangan 7:11

7:11 For the Lord said to Moses, “They must present their offering, one leader for each day, ¹  for the dedication of the altar.”

Bilangan 12:15

12:15 So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in. ² 

Bilangan 15:32

15:32 When the Israelites were ³  in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. ⁴ 

[7:11]  ¹ tn The distributive sense is achieved by repetition: “one leader for the day, one leader for the day.”

[12:15]  ² tn The clause has the Niphal infinitive construct after a temporal preposition.

[15:32]  ³ tn The preterite of the verb “to be” is here subordinated to the next, parallel verb form, to form a temporal clause.

[15:32]  ⁴ sn For this brief passage, see A. Phillips, “The Case of the Woodgatherer Reconsidered,” VT 19 (1969): 125-28; J. Weingreen, “The Case of the Woodgatherer (Numbers XV 32-36),” VT 16 (1966): 361-64; and B. J. Bamberger, “Revelations of Torah after Sinai,” HUCA 16 (1941): 97-113. Weingreen argues that there is something of the Rabbinic method of setting a fence around the Law here; in other words, if this sin were not punished, the Law would have been violated in greater ways. Gathering of wood, although seemingly harmless, is done with intent to kindle fire, and so reveals a culpable intent.