Numbers 10:3

10:3 When ¹  they blow ²  them both, all the community must come ³  to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 14:15

14:15 If you kill ⁴  this entire people at once, ⁵  then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

Numbers 16:31

16:31 When he had finished ⁶  speaking ⁷  all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

Numbers 27:19-20

27:19 set him ⁸  before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community, and commission ⁹  him publicly. ¹⁰  27:20 Then you must delegate ¹¹  some of your authority ¹²  to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient. ¹³ 

Numbers 29:40

29:40 (30:1) ¹⁴  So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the Lord had commanded him. ¹⁵ 

Numbers 35:29

35:29 So these things must be a statutory ordinance ¹⁶  for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

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¹ tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated as a temporal clause to the following similar verbal construction.

² tn The verb תָקַע (taqa’) means “to strike, drive, blow a trumpet.”

³ tn Heb “the assembly shall assemble themselves.”

⁴ tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of מוּת (mut), וְהֵמַתָּה (vÿhemattah). The vav (ו) consecutive makes this also a future time sequence verb, but again in a conditional clause.

⁵ tn Heb “as one man.”

⁶ tn The initial temporal clause is standard: It begins with the temporal indicator “and it was,” followed here by the Piel infinitive construct with the preposition and the subjective genitive suffix. “And it happened when he finished.”

⁷ tn The infinitive construct with the preposition lamed (ל) functions here as the direct object of the preceding infinitive. It tells what he finished.

⁸ tn This could be translated “position him,” or “have him stand,” since it is the causative stem of the verb “to stand.”

⁹ tn The verb is the Piel perfect of צִוָּה (tsivvah, literally “to command”). The verb has a wide range of meanings, and so here in this context the idea of instructing gives way to a more general sense of commissioning for duty. The verb in sequence is equal to the imperfect of instruction.

¹⁰ tn Heb “in their eyes.”

¹¹ tn The verb is simply “give,” but in this context giving some of Moses’ honor to Joshua in the presence of the people is essentially passing the leadership to him, or delegating the authority to him with the result that people would follow him.

¹² tc The Greek, Syriac, and Vulgate read “glory” for this form that occurs only here in the Pentateuch. Elsewhere it is rendered “majesty, splendor” (see Ps 96:6). It could even be “vitality” here. The authority being transferred here is both spiritual and civil.

¹³ tn Heb “hear.”

¹⁴ sn Beginning with 29:40, the verse numbers through 30:16 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:40 ET = 30:1 HT, 30:1 ET = 30:2 HT, etc., through 30:16 ET = 30:17 HT. With 31:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

¹⁵ tn Heb “Moses.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁶ tn Heb “a statute of judgment” (so KJV).