Discovery BoxNumbers 1:22 
Context1:22 From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them 1 twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.
Numbers 1:24
Context1:24 2 From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 1:26
Context1:26 From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 1:28
Context1:28 From the descendants of Issachar: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 1:30
Context1:30 From the descendants of Zebulun: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 1:32
Context1:32 From the sons of Joseph:
From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 1:34
Context1:34 From the descendants of Manasseh: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 1:36
Context1:36 From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 1:38
Context1:38 From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 1:40
Context1:40 From the descendants of Asher: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 1:42
Context1:42 From 3 the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Numbers 13:22
Context13:22 When they went up through the Negev, they 4 came 5 to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, 6 descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan 7 in Egypt.)
Numbers 14:24
Context14:24 Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants 8 will possess it.
Numbers 24:7
Context24:7 He will pour the water out of his buckets, 9
and their descendants will be like abundant 10 water; 11
their king will be greater than Agag, 12
and their kingdom will be exalted.
Numbers 25:13
Context25:13 So it will be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he has been zealous for his God, 13 and has made atonement 14 for the Israelites.’”
Numbers 26:9
Context26:9 Eliab’s descendants were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram who as leaders of the community rebelled against Moses and Aaron with the followers 15 of Korah when they rebelled against the Lord.
Numbers 32:17
Context32:17 but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness 16 and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against 17 the inhabitants of the land.
1 tc Some witnesses have omitted “those that were numbered of them,” to preserve the literary pattern of the text. The omission is supported by the absence of the expression in the Greek as well as in some MT
2 tc The LXX has vv. 24-35 after v. 37.
3 tc The verse does not have the preposition, only “the descendants of Naphtali.”
4 tc The MT has the singular, but the ancient versions and Smr have the plural.
5 tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the following clause. The first verse gave the account of their journey over the whole land; this section focuses on what happened in the area of Hebron, which would be the basis for the false report.
6 sn These names are thought to be three clans that were in the Hebron area (see Josh 15:14; Judg 1:20). To call them descendants of Anak is usually taken to mean that they were large or tall people (2 Sam 21:18-22). They were ultimately driven out by Caleb.
7 sn The text now provides a brief historical aside for the readers. Zoan was probably the city of Tanis, although that is disputed today by some scholars. It was known in Egypt in the New Kingdom as “the fields of Tanis,” which corresponded to the “fields of Zoar” in the Hebrew Bible (Ps 78:12, 43).
8 tn Heb “seed.”
9 tc For this colon the LXX has “a man shall come out of his seed.” Cf. the Syriac Peshitta and Targum.
10 tn Heb “many.”
11 sn These two lines are difficult, but the general sense is that of irrigation buckets and a well-watered land. The point is that Israel will be prosperous and fruitful.
12 sn Many commentators see this as a reference to Agag of 1 Sam 15:32-33, the Amalekite king slain by Samuel, for that is the one we know. But that is by no means clear, for this text does not identify this Agag. If it is that king, then this poem, or this line in this poem, would have to be later, unless one were to try to argue for a specific prophecy. Whoever this Agag is, he is a symbol of power.
13 tn The motif is reiterated here. Phinehas was passionately determined to maintain the rights of his God by stopping the gross sinful perversions.
14 sn The atonement that he made in this passage refers to the killing of the two obviously blatant sinners. By doing this he dispensed with any animal sacrifice, for the sinners themselves died. In Leviticus it was the life of the substitutionary animal that was taken in place of the sinners that made atonement. The point is that sin was punished by death, and so God was free to end the plague and pardon the people. God’s holiness and righteousness have always been every bit as important as God’s mercy and compassion, for without righteousness and holiness mercy and compassion mean nothing.
15 tn Or “company” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); Heb “congregation.”
16 tn The MT has חֻשִׁים (khushim); the verbal root is חוּשׁ (khush, “to make haste” or “hurry”). But in light of the Greek and Latin Vulgate the Hebrew should probably be emended to חֲמֻשִׁים (hamushim), a qal passive participle meaning “in battle array.” See further BDB 301 s.v. I חוּשׁ, BDB 332 s.v. חֲמֻשִׁים; HALOT 300 s.v. I חושׁ, חישׁ; HALOT 331 s.v. I חמשׁ.
17 tn Heb “from before.”
