Numbers 12:12
12:12 Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its 1 mother’s womb!”
Numbers 15:10
15:10 and you must present as the drink offering half a hin of wine with the fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Numbers 31:29
31:29 You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.
Numbers 34:14-15
34:14 because the tribe of the Reubenites by their families, 2 the tribe of the Gadites by their families, and half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
34:15 The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, east of Jericho, 3 toward the sunrise.”
1 tc The words “its mother” and “its flesh” are among the so-called tiqqune sopherim, or “emendations of the scribes.” According to this tradition the text originally had here “our mother” and “our flesh,” but the ancient scribes changed these pronouns from the first person to the third person. Apparently they were concerned that the image of Moses’ mother giving birth to a baby with physical defects of the sort described here was somehow inappropriate, given the stature and importance of Moses.
2 tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also a little later in this verse.
3 map For the location of Jericho see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.