Numbers 11:8

11:8 And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. ¹ 

Numbers 11:24

11:24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle.

Numbers 14:35

14:35 I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”

Numbers 20:10

20:10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them, “Listen, you rebels, ²  must we bring ³  water out of this rock for you?”

Numbers 20:24

20:24 “Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, ⁴  for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you ⁵  rebelled against my word ⁶  at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 21:23

21:23 But Sihon did not permit Israel to pass through his border; he ⁷  gathered all his forces ⁸  together and went out against Israel into the wilderness. When ⁹  he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

Numbers 27:3

27:3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although ¹⁰  he was not part of ¹¹  the company of those that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but he died for his own sin, ¹²  and he had no sons.

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¹ tn Heb “And its taste was like the taste of fresh olive oil.”

² tn The word is הַמֹּרִים (hammorim, “the rebels”), but here as a vocative: “you rebels.” It was a harsh address, although well-earned.

³ tn The word order and the emphasis of the tense are important to this passage. The word order is “from this rock must we bring out to you water?” The emphasis is clearly on “from this rock!” The verb is the imperfect tense; it has one of the modal nuances here, probably obligatory – “must we do this?”

⁴ sn This is the standard poetic expression for death. The bones would be buried, often with the bones of relatives in the same tomb, giving rise to the expression.

⁵ tn The verb is in the second person plural form, and so it is Moses and Aaron who rebelled, and so now because of that Aaron first and then Moses would die without going into the land.

⁶ tn Heb “mouth.”

⁷ tn Heb “Sihon.”

⁸ tn Heb “people.”

⁹ tn The clause begins with a preterite with vav (ו) consecutive, but may be subordinated to the next preterite as a temporal clause.

¹⁰ tn This clause begins with a vav (ו) on a pronoun, marking it out as a disjunctive vav. In this context it fits best to take it as a circumstantial clause introducing concession.

¹¹ tn Heb “in the midst of.”

¹² tn The word order is emphatic: “but in/on account of his own sins he died.”