Numbers 8:11
8:11 and Aaron is to offer 1 the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work 2 of the Lord.
Numbers 9:11
9:11 They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month 3 at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.
Numbers 11:13
11:13 From where shall I get 4 meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’ 5
Numbers 11:21
11:21 Moses said, “The people around me 6 are 600,000 on foot; 7 but you say, ‘I will give them meat, 8 that they may eat 9 for a whole month.’
Numbers 18:10
18:10 You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.
Numbers 18:13
18:13 And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.
Numbers 18:31
18:31 And you may 10 eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.
Numbers 31:24
31:24 You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”
Numbers 35:11-12
35:11 you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.
35:12 And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.
Numbers 36:9
36:9 No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”
1 tn The Hebrew text actually has “wave the Levites as a wave offering.” The wave offering was part of the ritual of the peace offering and indicated the priest’s portion being presented to God in a lifted, waving motion for all to see. The Levites were going to be in the sanctuary to serve the Lord and assist the priests. It is unclear how Moses would have presented them as wave offerings, but the intent is that they would be living sacrifices, as Paul would later say in Rom 12:1 for all Christians.
2 tn The construction emphasizes the spiritual service of the Levites, using the infinitive construct of עָבַד (’avad) followed by its cognate accusative.
3 sn The delay of four weeks for such people would have permitted enough time for them to return from their journey, or to recover from any short termed defilement such as is mentioned here. Apart from this provision, the Passover was to be kept precisely at the proper time.
4 tn The Hebrew text simply has “from where to me flesh?” which means “from where will I have meat?”
5 tn The cohortative coming after the imperative stresses purpose (it is an indirect volitive).
6 tn Heb “the people who I am in their midst,” i.e., among whom I am.
7 tn The Hebrew sentence stresses the number. The sentence begins “600,000….”
8 tn The word order places the object first here: “Meat I will give them.” This adds to the contrast between the number and the statement of the Lord.
9 tn The verb is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, carrying the sequence from the preceding imperfect tense. However, this verb may be subordinated to the preceding to express a purpose clause.
10 tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it functions as the equivalent of the imperfect of permission.