Bilangan 11:8

11:8 And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. ¹ 

Bilangan 16:3

16:3 And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, ²  seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the Lord?”

Bilangan 16:5

16:5 Then he said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning the Lord will make known who are his, and who is holy. He will cause that person ³  to approach him; the person he has chosen he will cause to approach him.

Bilangan 16:40

16:40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of ⁴  Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the Lord had spoken by the authority ⁵  of Moses.

Bilangan 16:47

16:47 So Aaron did ⁶  as Moses commanded ⁷  and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people.

[11:8]  ¹ tn Heb “And its taste was like the taste of fresh olive oil.”

[16:3]  ² tn The meaning of רַב־לָכֶם (rab-lakhem) is something like “you have assumed far too much authority.” It simply means “much to you,” perhaps “you have gone to far,” or “you are overreaching yourselves” (M. Noth, Numbers [OTL], 123). He is objecting to the exclusiveness of the system that Moses has been introducing.

[16:5]  ³ tn Heb “him.”

[16:40]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the seed of.”

[16:40]  ⁵ tn Heb “hand.”

[16:47]  ⁶ tn Heb “took.”

[16:47]  ⁷ tn Or “had spoken” (NASB); NRSV “had ordered.”