Numbers 13:26

The Spies’ Reports

13:26 They came back ¹  to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. ²  They reported ³  to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.

Numbers 18:29

18:29 From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due ⁴  the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’ ⁵ 

Numbers 26:2

26:2 “Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, ⁶  everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.” ⁷ 

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¹ tn The construction literally has “and they went and they entered,” which may be smoothed out as a verbal hendiadys, the one verb modifying the other.

² sn Kadesh is Ain Qadeis, about 50 miles (83 km) south of Beer Sheba. It is called Kadesh-barnea in Num 32:8.

³ tn Heb “They brought back word”; the verb is the Hiphil preterite of שׁוּב (shuv).

⁴ 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.

⁵ tn Or “its hallowed thing.”

⁶ tn Heb “house of their fathers.”

⁷ tn Heb “everyone who goes out in the army in Israel.”