Numbers 9:16

9:16 This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, ¹  and there was a fiery appearance by night.

Numbers 14:25

14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) ²  Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

Numbers 15:13

15:13 “‘Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Numbers 21:4

Fiery Serpents

21:4 Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, ³  to go around the land of Edom, but the people ⁴  became impatient along the way.

Numbers 24:11

24:11 So now, go back where you came from! ⁵  I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”

Numbers 36:7

36:7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred ⁶  from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

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¹ tc The MT lacks the words “by day,” but a number of ancient versions have this reading (e.g., Greek, Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J., Latin Vulgate).

² 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.

³ tn The “Red Sea” is the general designation for the bodies of water on either side of the Sinai peninsula, even though they are technically gulfs from the Red Sea.

⁴ tn Heb “the soul of the people,” expressing the innermost being of the people as they became frustrated.

⁵ tn Heb “flee to your place.”

⁶ tn Heb “turned aside.”