Numbers 26:54

26:54 To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, ¹  and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. ²  To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it. ³ 

Numbers 35:2

35:2 “Instruct the Israelites to give ⁴  the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites ⁵  will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

Numbers 35:6

35:6 Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. ⁶  And you must give them forty-two other towns.

Numbers 36:2

36:2 They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give ⁷  the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

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¹ tn Heb “to many you will multiply his inheritance.”

² tn Heb “to a few you will lessen his inheritance.”

³ tn Heb “according to those that were numbered of him,” meaning, in accordance with the number of people in his clan.

⁴ tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive: “command…and they will give,” or “that they give.”

⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn The “manslayer” is the verb “to kill” in a participial form, providing the subject of the clause. The verb means “to kill”; it can mean accidental killing, premeditated killing, or capital punishment. The clause uses the infinitive to express purpose or result: “to flee there the manslayer,” means “so that the manslayer may flee there.”

⁷ tn The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the Lord had commanded Moses.