25:6 Just then 3 one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers 4 a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of 5 the whole community of the Israelites, while they 6 were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
1 tn The classification of the perfect tense here too could be the perfect of resolve, since this law is declaring what will be their portion – “I have decided to give.”
2 tn In the Hebrew text the verb has no expressed subject (although the “Israelites” is certainly intended), and so it can be rendered as a passive.
3 tn The verse begins with the deictic particle וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh), pointing out the action that was taking place. It stresses the immediacy of the action to the reader.
4 tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”
5 tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”
6 tn The vav (ו) at the beginning of the clause is a disjunctive because it is prefixed to the nonverbal form. In this context it is best interpreted as a circumstantial clause, stressing that this happened “while” people were weeping over the sin.