Bilangan 5:12

5:12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

Bilangan 14:13

14:13 Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear ¹  it – for you brought up this people by your power from among them –

Bilangan 17:8

17:8 On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony – and ²  the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds! ³ 

Bilangan 27:22

27:22 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him; he took Joshua and set ⁴  him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community.

[14:13]  ¹ tn The construction is unusual in that we have here a perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive with no verb before it to establish the time sequence. The context requires that this be taken as a vav (ו) consecutive. It actually forms the protasis for the next verse, and would best be rendered “when…then they will say.”

[17:8]  ² tn Here too the deictic particle (“and behold”) is added to draw attention to the sight in a vivid way.

[17:8]  ³ sn There is no clear answer why the tribe of Levi had used an almond staff. The almond tree is one of the first to bud in the spring, and its white blossoms are a beautiful sign that winter is over. Its name became a name for “watcher”; Jeremiah plays on this name for God’s watching over his people (1:11-12).

[27:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “stood.”