Bilangan 20:20

20:20 But he said, “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them ¹  with a large and powerful force. ² 

Bilangan 21:11

21:11 Then they traveled on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, ³  in the wilderness that is before Moab, on the eastern side. ⁴ 

Bilangan 21:30

21:30 We have overpowered them; ⁵ 

Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon.

We have shattered them as far as Nophah,

which ⁶  reaches to Medeba.”

Bilangan 32:8

32:8 Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

Bilangan 34:14

34:14 because the tribe of the Reubenites by their families, ⁷  the tribe of the Gadites by their families, and half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.

[20:20]  ¹ tn Heb “to meet him.”

[20:20]  ² tn Heb “with many [heavy] people and with a strong hand.” The translation presented above is interpretive, but that is what the line means. It was a show of force, numbers and weapons, to intimidate the Israelites.

[21:11]  ³ sn These places are uncertain. Oboth may be some 15 miles (25 km) from the south end of the Dead Sea at a place called ‘Ain el-Weiba. Iye Abarim may be the modern Mahay at the southeastern corner of Moab. See J. Simons, The Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament.

[21:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the rising of the sun.”

[21:30]  ⁵ tc The first verb is difficult. MT has “we shot at them.” The Greek has “their posterity perished” (see GKC 218 §76.f).

[21:30]  ⁶ tc The relative pronoun “which” (אֲשֶׁר, ’asher) posed a problem for the ancient scribes here, as indicated by the so-called extraordinary point (punta extraordinaria) over the letter ר (resh) of אֲשֶׁר. Smr and the LXX have “fire” (אֵשׁ, ’esh) here (cf. NAB, NJB, RSV, NRSV). Some modern scholars emend the word to שֹׁאָה (sho’ah, “devastation”).

[34:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also a little later in this verse.