Numbers 18:30

18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, ¹  ‘When you offer up ²  the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

Numbers 18:32

18:32 And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’” ³ 

Numbers 36:6

36:6 This is what ⁴  the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry ⁵  whomever they think best, ⁶  only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.

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¹ tn The wording of this verse is confusing; it may be that it is addressed to the priests, telling them how to deal with the offerings of the Levites.

² tn The clause begins with the infinitive construct with its preposition and suffixed subject serving to indicate the temporal clause.

³ tn The final clause could also be rendered “in order that you do not die.” The larger section can also be interpreted differently; rather than take it as a warning, it could be taken as an assurance that when they do all of this they will not be profaning it and so will not die (R. K. Harrison, Numbers [WEC], 253).

⁴ tn Heb “the word that.”

⁵ tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”

⁶ tn Heb “to the one who is good in their eyes.”