Numbers 1:18

1:18 and they assembled ¹  the entire community together on the first day of the second month. ²  Then the people recorded their ancestry ³  by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed ⁴  by name individually,

Numbers 4:26

4:26 the hangings for the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the court, ⁵  which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, along with all the furnishings for their service and everything that is made for them. So they are to serve. ⁶ 

Numbers 18:17

18:17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash ⁷  their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Numbers 20:8

20:8 “Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and then speak ⁸  to the rock before their eyes. It will pour forth ⁹  its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their beasts water to drink.”

Numbers 25:18

25:18 because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived ¹⁰  you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, ¹¹  their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.”

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¹ tn The verb is the Hiphil of the root קָהַל (qahal), meaning “to call, assemble”; the related noun is an “assembly.”

² tc The LXX adds “of the second year.”

³ tn The verb is the Hitpael preterite form וַיִּתְיַלְדוּ (vayyityaldu). The cognate noun תּוֹלְדוֹת (tolÿdot) is the word that means “genealogies, family records, records of ancestry.” The root is יָלַד (yalad, “to bear, give birth to”). Here they were recording their family connections, and not, of course, producing children. The verbal stem seems to be both declarative and reflexive.

⁴ tn The verb is supplied. The Hebrew text simply has “in/with the number of names of those who are twenty years old and higher according to their skulls.”

⁵ tc This whole clause is not in the Greek text; it is likely missing due to homoioteleuton.

⁶ tn The work of these people would have been very demanding, since the size and weight of the various curtains and courtyard hangings would have been great. For a detailed discussion of these, see the notes in the book of Exodus on the construction of the items.

⁷ tn Or “throw, toss.”

⁸ tn The verb is the Piel perfect with vav (ו) consecutive, following the two imperatives in the verse. Here is the focus of the instruction for Moses.

⁹ tn Heb “give.” The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive, as are the next two in the verse. These are not now equal to the imperatives, but imperfects, showing the results of speaking to the rock: “speak…and it will…and so you will….”

¹⁰ tn This is the same word as that translated “treachery.”

¹¹ sn Cozbi’s father, Zur, was one of five Midianite kings who eventually succumbed to Israel (Num 31:8). When the text gives the name and family of a woman, it is asserting that she is important, at least for social reasons, among her people.