Numbers 20:15

20:15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, ¹  and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly. ² 

Numbers 27:4

27:4 Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession ³  among the relatives ⁴  of our father.”

Numbers 32:16

The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites

32:16 Then they came very close to him and said, “We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families, ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “many days.”

² tn The verb רָעַע (ra’a’) means “to act or do evil.” Evil here is in the sense of causing pain or trouble. So the causative stem in our passage means “to treat wickedly.”

³ tn That is, the possession of land, or property, among the other families of their tribe.

⁴ tn The word is “brothers,” but this can be interpreted more loosely to relatives. So also in v. 7.

⁵ tn Heb “our little ones.”