Bilangan 1:24

1:24 ¹ From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:26

1:26 From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:28

1:28 From the descendants of Issachar: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:30

1:30 From the descendants of Zebulun: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:32

1:32 From the sons of Joseph:

From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:34

1:34 From the descendants of Manasseh: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:36

1:36 From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:38

1:38 From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:40

1:40 From the descendants of Asher: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:42

1:42 From ²  the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

Bilangan 1:45

1:45 All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered ³  according to their families.

Bilangan 4:46

4:46 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans,

Bilangan 6:2

6:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and tell them, ‘When either a man or a woman ⁴  takes a special vow, ⁵  to take a vow ⁶  as a Nazirite, ⁷  to separate ⁸  himself to the Lord,

Bilangan 16:2

16:2 and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders ⁹  of the community, chosen from the assembly, ¹⁰  famous men. ¹¹ 

Bilangan 21:32

21:32 Moses sent spies to reconnoiter ¹²  Jaazer, and they captured its villages ¹³  and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Bilangan 23:10

23:10 Who ¹⁴  can count ¹⁵  the dust ¹⁶  of Jacob,

Or number ¹⁷  the fourth part of Israel?

Let me ¹⁸  die the death of the upright, ¹⁹ 

and let the end of my life ²⁰  be like theirs.” ²¹ 

Bilangan 27:2

27:2 And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,

[1:24]  ¹ tc The LXX has vv. 24-35 after v. 37.

[1:42]  ² tc The verse does not have the preposition, only “the descendants of Naphtali.”

[1:45]  ³ tn Literally the text has, “and all the numbered of the Israelites were according to their families.” The verb in the sentence is actually without a complement (see v. 46).

[6:2]  ⁴ tn The formula is used here again: “a man or a woman – when he takes.” The vow is open to both men and women.

[6:2]  ⁵ tn The vow is considered special in view of the use of the verb יַפְלִא (yafli’), the Hiphil imperfect of the verb “to be wonderful, extraordinary.”

[6:2]  ⁶ tn The construction uses the infinitive construct followed by the cognate accusative: “to vow a vow.” This intensifies the idea that the vow is being taken carefully.

[6:2]  ⁷ tn The name of the vow is taken from the verb that follows; נָזַר (nazar) means “to consecrate oneself,” and so the Nazirite is a consecrated one. These are folks who would make a decision to take an oath for a time or for a lifetime to be committed to the Lord and show signs of separation from the world. Samuel was to be a Nazirite, as the fragment of the text from Qumran confirms – “he will be a נָזִיר (nazir) forever” (1 Sam 1:22).

[6:2]  ⁸ tn The form of the verb is an Hiphil infinitive construct, forming the wordplay and explanation for the name Nazirite. The Hiphil is here an internal causative, having the meaning of “consecrate oneself” or just “consecrate to the Lord.”

[16:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “princes” (so KJV, ASV).

[16:2]  ¹⁰ tn These men must have been counselors or judges of some kind.

[16:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “men of name,” or “men of renown.”

[21:32]  ¹² tn Heb “Moses sent to spy out.”

[21:32]  ¹³ tn Heb “daughters.”

[23:10]  ¹⁴ tn The question is again rhetorical; it means no one can count them – they are innumerable.

[23:10]  ¹⁵ tn The perfect tense can also be classified as a potential nuance. It does not occur very often, but does occur several times.

[23:10]  ¹⁶ sn The reference in the oracle is back to Gen 13:16, which would not be clear to Balaam. But God had described their growth like the dust of the earth. Here it is part of the description of the vast numbers.

[23:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and as a number, the fourth part of Israel.” The noun in the MT is not in the construct state, and so it should be taken as an adverbial accusative, forming a parallel with the verb “count.” The second object of the verse then follows, “the fourth part of Israel.” Smr and the LXX have “and who has numbered” (וּמִסְפָּר, umispar), making this colon more parallel to the preceding one. The editor of BHS prefers this reading.

[23:10]  ¹⁸ tn The use of נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) for the subject of the verb stresses the personal nature – me.

[23:10]  ¹⁹ sn Here the seer’s words link with the promise of Gen 12:3, that whoever blesses Israel will be blessed. Since the blessing belongs to them, the upright (and not Balak), Balaam would like his lot to be with them.

[23:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “my latter end.”

[23:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “his.”