Numbers 5:24

5:24 He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness.

Numbers 5:29

5:29 “‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, ¹  when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

Numbers 12:12

12:12 Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its ²  mother’s womb!”

Numbers 22:33

22:33 The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If ³  she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”

Numbers 30:3

Vows Made by Single Women

30:3 “If a young ⁴  woman who is still living ⁵  in her father’s house makes a vow to the Lord or places herself under an obligation,

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¹ tn Heb “law of jealousies.”

² tc The words “its mother” and “its flesh” are among the so-called tiqqune sopherim, or “emendations of the scribes.” According to this tradition the text originally had here “our mother” and “our flesh,” but the ancient scribes changed these pronouns from the first person to the third person. Apparently they were concerned that the image of Moses’ mother giving birth to a baby with physical defects of the sort described here was somehow inappropriate, given the stature and importance of Moses.

³ tc Many commentators consider אוּלַי (’ulay, “perhaps”) to be a misspelling in the MT in place of לוּלֵי (luley, “if not”).

⁴ tn The qualification comes at the end of the verse, and simply says “in her youth.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew text just has “in her father’s house” and not “who is still living,” but that is the meaning of the line.