Numbers 5:22

5:22 and this water that causes the curse will go ¹  into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.” ²  Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.” ³ 

Numbers 13:17

The Spies’ Instructions

13:17 When Moses sent ⁴  them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, ⁵  and then go up into the hill country

Numbers 14:8

14:8 If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us – a land that is flowing with milk and honey. ⁶ 

Numbers 14:12

14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, ⁷  and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

Numbers 14:16

14:16 ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

Numbers 14:25

14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) ⁸  Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

Numbers 14:30

14:30 You will by no means enter into the land where ⁹  I swore ¹⁰  to settle ¹¹  you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Numbers 16:33

16:33 They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.

Numbers 19:6

19:6 And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, ¹²  and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning. ¹³ 

Numbers 20:4

20:4 Why ¹⁴  have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that ¹⁵  we and our cattle should die here?

Numbers 20:15

20:15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, ¹⁶  and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly. ¹⁷ 

Numbers 21:2

21:2 So Israel made a vow ¹⁸  to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed deliver ¹⁹  this people into our ²⁰  hand, then we will utterly destroy ²¹  their cities.”

Numbers 31:21

31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law that the Lord commanded Moses:

Numbers 31:27

31:27 Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war – who went out to battle – and the other for all the community.

Numbers 32:7

32:7 Why do you frustrate the intent ²²  of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the Lord has given them?

Numbers 36:12

36:12 They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.

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¹ tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. It could be taken as a jussive following the words of the priest in the previous section, but it is more likely to be a simple future.

² tn Heb “fall away.”

³ tn The word “amen” carries the idea of “so be it,” or “truly.” The woman who submits to this test is willing to have the test demonstrate the examination of God.

⁴ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the next verb of the same formation to express a temporal clause.

⁵ tn The instructions had them first go up into the southern desert of the land, and after passing through that, into the hill country of the Canaanites. The text could be rendered “into the Negev” as well as “through the Negev.”

⁶ tn The subjective genitives “milk and honey” are symbols of the wealth of the land, second only to bread. Milk was a sign of such abundance (Gen 49:12; Isa 7:21,22). Because of the climate the milk would thicken quickly and become curds, eaten with bread or turned into butter. The honey mentioned here is the wild honey (see Deut 32:13; Judg 14:8-9). It signified sweetness, or the finer things of life (Ezek 3:3).

⁷ tc The Greek version has “death.”

⁸ sn The judgment on Israel is that they turn back to the desert and not attack the tribes in the land. So a parenthetical clause is inserted to state who was living there. They would surely block the entrance to the land from the south – unless God removed them. And he is not going to do that for Israel.

⁹ tn The relative pronoun “which” is joined with the resumptive pronoun “in it” to form a smoother reading “where.”

¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text uses the anthropomorphic expression “I raised my hand” in taking an oath.

¹¹ tn Heb “to cause you to dwell; to cause you to settle.”

¹² sn In addition to the general references, see R. K. Harrison, “The Biblical Problem of Hyssop,” EvQ 26 (1954): 218-24.

¹³ sn There is no clear explanation available as to why these items were to be burned with the heifer. N. H. Snaith suggests that in accordance with Babylonian sacrifices they would have enhanced the rites with an aroma (Leviticus and Numbers [NCB], 272). In Lev 14 the wood and the hyssop may have been bound together by the scarlet wool to make a sprinkling device. It may be that the symbolism is what is important here. Cedar wood, for example, is durable; it may have symbolized resistance to future corruption and defilement, an early acquired immunity perhaps (R. K. Harrison, Numbers [WEC], 256).

¹⁴ tn Heb “and why….” The conjunction seems to be recording another thing that the people said in their complaint against Moses.

¹⁵ tn The clause uses the infinitive construct with the lamed (ל) preposition. The clause would be a result clause in this sentence: “Why have you brought us here…with the result that we will all die?”

¹⁶ tn Heb “many days.”

¹⁷ 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.”

¹⁸ tn The Hebrew text uses a cognate accusative with the verb: They vowed a vow. The Israelites were therefore determined with God’s help to defeat Arad.

¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text has the infinitive absolute and the imperfect tense of נָתַן (natan) to stress the point – if you will surely/indeed give.”

²⁰ tn Heb “my.”

²¹ tn On the surface this does not sound like much of a vow. But the key is in the use of the verb for “utterly destroy” – חָרַם (kharam). Whatever was put to this “ban” or “devotion” belonged to God, either for his use, or for destruction. The oath was in fact saying that they would take nothing from this for themselves. It would simply be the removal of what was alien to the faith, or to God’s program.

²² tn Heb “heart.” So also in v. 9.