Numbers 21:17

21:17 Then Israel sang this song:

“Spring up, O well, sing to it!

Numbers 28:22

28:22 as well as one goat for a purification offering, to make atonement for you.

Numbers 28:30

28:30 as well as one male goat to make an atonement for you.

tn After the adverb “then” the prefixed conjugation has the preterite force. For the archaic constructions, see D. N. Freedman, “Archaic Forms in Early Hebrew Poetry,” ZAW 72 (1960): 101-7. The poem shows all the marks of being ancient.