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 8:26

8:26 They may assist ¹  their colleagues ²  in the tent of meeting, to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish ³  the Levites regarding their duties.”

Bilangan 16:26

16:26 And he said to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked ⁴  men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because ⁵  of all their sins.” ⁶ 

Bilangan 18:13

18:13 And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

Bilangan 22:38

22:38 Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you. Now, am I able ⁷  to speak ⁸  just anything? I must speak ⁹  only the word that God puts in my mouth.”

Bilangan 24:8

24:8 God brought them out of Egypt.

They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull;

they will devour hostile people ¹⁰ 

and will break their bones

and will pierce them through with arrows.

Bilangan 26:44

Asher

26:44 The Asherites by their families: from Imnah, the family of the Imnahites; from Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; from Beriah, the family of the Beriahites.

Bilangan 26:59

26:59 Now the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who was born ¹¹  to Levi in Egypt. And to Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and Miriam their sister.

Bilangan 32:1

The Petition of the Reubenites and Gadites

32:1 ¹² Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle, ¹³ 

Bilangan 33:52

33:52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, ¹⁴  and demolish their high places.

Bilangan 34:3

34:3 your southern border ¹⁵  will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea,

Bilangan 35:2

35:2 “Instruct the Israelites to give ¹⁶  the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites ¹⁷  will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

Bilangan 36:4

36:4 And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, ¹⁸  their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.” ¹⁹ 

[8:26]  ¹ tn The verb is the Piel perfect of שָׁרַת (sharat, “to serve, minister”). Here the form has the vav (ו) consecutive, and so is equal to the imperfect tense stressing permission. After the Levites reached the age of retirement, they were permitted to assist the others, but were not permitted to do the work themselves.

[8:26]  ² tn Heb “brothers,” but the meaning in this context is “fellow Levites.”

[8:26]  ³ tn Heb “you shall do, make.”

[16:26]  ⁴ tn The word רָשָׁע (rasha’) has the sense of a guilty criminal. The word “wicked” sometimes gives the wrong connotation. These men were opposing the Lord, and so were condemned as criminals – they were guilty. The idea of “wickedness” therefore applies in that sense.

[16:26]  ⁵ tn The preposition bet (בְּ) in this line is causal – “on account of their sins.”

[16:26]  ⁶ sn The impression is that the people did not hear what the Lord said to Moses, but only what Moses said to the people as a result. They saw the brilliant cloud, and perhaps heard the sound of his voice, but the relaying of the instructions indicates they did not hear the actual instruction from the Lord himself.

[22:38]  ⁷ tn The verb is אוּכַל (’ukhal) in a question – “am I able?” But emphasizing this is the infinitive absolute before it. So Balaam is saying something like, “Can I really say anything?”

[22:38]  ⁸ tn The Piel infinitive construct (without the preposition) serves as the object of the verb “to be able.” The whole question is rhetorical – he is saying that he will not be able to say anything God does not allow him to say.

[22:38]  ⁹ tn The imperfect tense is here taken as an obligatory imperfect.

[24:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they will devour nations,” their adversaries.

[26:59]  ¹¹ tn Heb “who she bore him to Levi.” The verb has no expressed subject. Either one could be supplied, such as “her mother,” or it could be treated as a passive.

[32:1]  ¹² sn While the tribes are on the other side of Jordan, the matter of which tribes would settle there has to be discussed. This chapter begins the settlement of Israel into the tribal territories, something to be continued in Joshua. The chapter has the petitions (vv. 1-5), the response by Moses (vv. 6-15), the proposal (vv. 16-27), and the conclusion of the matter (vv. 28-42). For literature on this subject, both critical and conservative, see S. E. Loewenstein, “The Relation of the Settlement of Gad and Reuben in Numbers 32:1-38, Its Background and Its Composition,” Tarbiz 42 (1972): 12-26; J. Mauchline, “Gilead and Gilgal, Some Reflections on the Israelite Occupation of Palestine,” VT 6 (1956): 19-33; and A. Bergmann, “The Israelite Tribe of Half-Manasseh,” JPOS 16 (1936): 224-54.

[32:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “the place was a place of/for cattle.”

[33:52]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text repeats the verb “you will destroy.”

[34:3]  ¹⁵ tn The expression refers to the corner or extremity of the Negev, the South.

[35:2]  ¹⁶ tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive: “command…and they will give,” or “that they give.”

[35:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[36:4]  ¹⁸ tn The verb הָיָה (hayah) is most often translated “to be,” but it can also mean “to happen, to take place, to come to pass,” etc.

[36:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the tribe of our fathers.”