Numbers 15:15

15:15 One statute must apply ¹  to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent ²  statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike ³  before the Lord.

Numbers 24:14

24:14 And now, I am about to go ⁴  back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.” ⁵ 

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¹ tn The word “apply” is supplied in the translation.

² tn Or “a statute forever.”

³ tn Heb “as you, as [so] the alien.”

⁴ tn The construction is the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) suffixed followed by the active participle. This is the futur instans use of the participle, to express something that is about to happen: “I am about to go.”

⁵ tn Heb “in the latter days.” For more on this expression, see E. Lipinski, “באחרית הימים dans les textes préexiliques,” VT 20 (1970): 445-50.