Numbers 3:33

The Numbering of Merari

3:33 From Merari came the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were ¹  the families of Merari.

Numbers 3:49

3:49 So Moses took the redemption money ²  from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

Numbers 15:32

15:32 When the Israelites were ³  in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. ⁴ 

Numbers 21:32

21:32 Moses sent spies to reconnoiter ⁵  Jaazer, and they captured its villages ⁶  and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Numbers 21:35

21:35 So they defeated Og, ⁷  his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, ⁸  and they possessed his land.

Numbers 22:40

22:40 And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some ⁹  to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

Numbers 23:22

23:22 God brought them ¹⁰  out of Egypt.

They have, as it were, the strength of a wild bull. ¹¹ 

Numbers 26:19

Judah

26:19 The descendants of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 26:21

26:21 And the Perezites were: from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Hamul, ¹²  the family of the Hamulites.

Numbers 26:30

26:30 These were the Gileadites: from Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; from Helek, the family of the Helekites;

Numbers 32:39

32:39 The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

Numbers 36:11

36:11 For the daughters of Zelophehad – Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah – were married to the sons of their uncles. ¹³ 

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¹ tn The Hebrew text has “these they the families of Merari.” The independent personal pronoun has an anaphoric use, somewhat equivalent to the copula “and” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 23, §115).

² sn The word used is “silver.” Coins were not in existence until after 700 b.c. (starting with Lydia).

³ tn The preterite of the verb “to be” is here subordinated to the next, parallel verb form, to form a temporal clause.

⁴ sn For this brief passage, see A. Phillips, “The Case of the Woodgatherer Reconsidered,” VT 19 (1969): 125-28; J. Weingreen, “The Case of the Woodgatherer (Numbers XV 32-36),” VT 16 (1966): 361-64; and B. J. Bamberger, “Revelations of Torah after Sinai,” HUCA 16 (1941): 97-113. Weingreen argues that there is something of the Rabbinic method of setting a fence around the Law here; in other words, if this sin were not punished, the Law would have been violated in greater ways. Gathering of wood, although seemingly harmless, is done with intent to kindle fire, and so reveals a culpable intent.

⁵ tn Heb “Moses sent to spy out.”

⁶ tn Heb “daughters.”

⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Og) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “no remnant.”

⁹ sn The understanding is that Balak was making a sacrifice for a covenant relationship, and so he gave some of the meat to the men and to the seer.

¹⁰ tn The form is the Hiphil participle from יָצַא (yatsa’) with the object suffix. He is the one who brought them out.

¹¹ sn The expression is “the horns of the wild ox” (KJV “unicorn”). The point of the image is strength or power. Horns are also used in the Bible to represent kingship (see Pss 89 and 132).

¹² tc Smr and the Greek version have “Hamuel.”

¹³ tn They married in the family as they were instructed. But the meaning of דּוֹד (dod) is not necessarily restricted to “uncle.”