Bilangan 7:2

7:2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, ¹  made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising ²  the numbering.

Bilangan 9:7

9:7 And those men said to him, “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”

Bilangan 15:5-6

15:5 You must also prepare one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering ³  with the burnt offering or the sacrifice for each lamb. ⁴  15:6 Or for a ram, you must prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one-third of a hin of olive oil,

Bilangan 18:27

18:27 And your raised offering will be credited ⁵  to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine ⁶  from the winepress.

Bilangan 18:29

18:29 From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due ⁷  the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’ ⁸ 

[7:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

[7:2]  ² tn The form is the Qal active participle from the verb “to stand” (עָמַד, ’amad). The form describes these leaders as “the ones standing over [the ones numbered].” The expression, along with the clear indication of the first census in chapter 1, shows that this was a supervisory capacity.

[15:5]  ³ sn The drink-offering was an ancient custom, mentioned in the Ugaritic tablets of Ras Shamra (14th century b.c.). The drink offering was poured out at the base of the altar (see Sir 50:15 and Josephus, Ant. 3.9.4 [3.234]).

[15:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “for the one lamb,” but it clearly means “for each lamb.”

[18:27]  ⁵ tn The verb is חָשַׁב (khashav, “to reckon; to count; to think”); it is the same verb used for “crediting” Abram with righteousness. Here the tithe of the priests will be counted as if it were a regular tithe.

[18:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “fullness,” meaning the fullness of the harvest, i.e., a full harvest.

[18:29]  ⁷ tn The construction is “every raised offering of the Lord”; the genitive here is probably to be taken as a genitive of worth – the offering that is due the Lord.

[18:29]  ⁸ tn Or “its hallowed thing.”