Bilangan 1:18

1:18 and they assembled ¹  the entire community together on the first day of the second month. ²  Then the people recorded their ancestry ³  by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed ⁴  by name individually,

Bilangan 3:39

3:39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word ⁵  of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000. ⁶ 

Bilangan 11:21

11:21 Moses said, “The people around me ⁷  are 600,000 on foot; ⁸  but you say, ‘I will give them meat, ⁹  that they may eat ¹⁰  for a whole month.’

Bilangan 28:11

Monthly Offerings

28:11 “‘On the first day of each month ¹¹  you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

[1:18]  ¹ tn The verb is the Hiphil of the root קָהַל (qahal), meaning “to call, assemble”; the related noun is an “assembly.”

[1:18]  ² tc The LXX adds “of the second year.”

[1:18]  ³ tn The verb is the Hitpael preterite form וַיִּתְיַלְדוּ (vayyityaldu). The cognate noun תּוֹלְדוֹת (tolÿdot) is the word that means “genealogies, family records, records of ancestry.” The root is יָלַד (yalad, “to bear, give birth to”). Here they were recording their family connections, and not, of course, producing children. The verbal stem seems to be both declarative and reflexive.

[1:18]  ⁴ tn The verb is supplied. The Hebrew text simply has “in/with the number of names of those who are twenty years old and higher according to their skulls.”

[3:39]  ⁵ tn Here again the Hebrew has “at the mouth of,” meaning in accordance with what the Lord said. So also in v. 51.

[3:39]  ⁶ tn The total is a rounded off number; it does not duplicate the precise total of 22,300. Some modern scholars try to explain it by positing an error in v. 28, suggesting that “six” should be read as “three” (שֵׁשׁ [shesh] as שָׁלֹשׁ [shalosh]).

[11:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “the people who I am in their midst,” i.e., among whom I am.

[11:21]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew sentence stresses the number. The sentence begins “600,000….”

[11:21]  ⁹ tn The word order places the object first here: “Meat I will give them.” This adds to the contrast between the number and the statement of the Lord.

[11:21]  ¹⁰ tn The verb is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, carrying the sequence from the preceding imperfect tense. However, this verb may be subordinated to the preceding to express a purpose clause.

[28:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “of your months.”