Discovery BoxNumbers 1:4 
Context1:4 And to help you 1 there is to be a man from each 2 tribe, each man 3 the head 4 of his family. 5
Numbers 11:3
Context11:3 So he called the name of that place Taberah 6 because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.
Numbers 11:6
Context11:6 But now we 7 are dried up, 8 and there is nothing at all before us 9 except this manna!”
Numbers 11:34
Context11:34 So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, 10 because there they buried the people that craved different food. 11
Numbers 13:24
Context13:24 That place was called 12 the Eshcol Valley, 13 because of the cluster 14 of grapes that the Israelites cut from there.
Numbers 15:34
Context15:34 They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.
Numbers 20:2
Context20:2 And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.
Numbers 21:32
Context21:32 Moses sent spies to reconnoiter 15 Jaazer, and they captured its villages 16 and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Numbers 21:35
Context21:35 So they defeated Og, 17 his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, 18 and they possessed his land.
Numbers 23:15
Context23:15 And Balaam 19 said to Balak, “Station yourself here 20 by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there.
Numbers 28:18
Context28:18 And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work 21 on it.
Numbers 32:26
Context32:26 Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,
Numbers 33:14
Context33:14 They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
Numbers 34:5
Context34:5 There the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and then its direction is to the sea. 22
1 tn Heb “and with you.”
2 tn The construction uses the noun in a distributive sense: “a man, a man for a tribe,” meaning a man for each tribe.
3 tn The clause expresses a distributive function, “a man” means “each man.”
4 sn See J. R. Bartlett, “The Use of the Word ראשׁ as a Title in the Old Testament,” VT 19 (1969): 1-10.
5 tn Heb “the house of his fathers.”
6 tn The name תַּבְעֵרָה (tav’erah) is given to the spot as a commemorative of the wilderness experience. It is explained by the formula using the same verbal root, “to burn.” Such naming narratives are found dozens of times in the OT, and most frequently in the Pentateuch. The explanation is seldom an exact etymology, and so in the literature is called a popular etymology. It is best to explain the connection as a figure of speech, a paronomasia, which is a phonetic wordplay that may or may not be etymologically connected. Usually the name is connected to the explanation by a play on the verbal root – here the preterite explaining the noun. The significance of commemorating the place by such a device is to “burn” it into the memory of Israel. The narrative itself would be remembered more easily by the name and its motif. The namings in the wilderness wanderings remind the faithful of unbelief, and warn us all not to murmur as they murmured. See further A. P. Ross, “Paronomasia and Popular Etymologies in the Naming Narrative of the Old Testament,” Ph.D. diss., University of Cambridge, 1982.
7 tn Heb “our souls.”
8 sn The Hebrews were complaining both about the bland taste of the manna and dehydration – they were parched in the wilderness.
9 tn Heb “before our eyes,” meaning that “we see nothing except this manna.”
10 sn The name “the graves of the ones who craved” is again explained by a wordplay, a popular etymology. In Hebrew קִבְרוֹת הַתַּאֲוָה (qivrot hatta’avah) is the technical name. It is the place that the people craved the meat, longing for the meat of Egypt, and basically rebelled against God. The naming marks another station in the wilderness where the people failed to accept God’s good gifts with grace and to pray for their other needs to be met.
11 tn The words “different food” are implied, and are supplied in the translation for clarity.
12 tn The verb is rendered as a passive because there is no expressed subject.
13 tn Or “Wadi Eshcol.” The translation “brook” is too generous; the Hebrew term refers to a river bed, a ravine or valley through which torrents of rain would rush in the rainy season; at other times it might be completely dry.
14 tn The word “Eshcol” is drawn from the Hebrew expression concerning the “cluster of grapes.” The word is probably retained in the name Burj Haskeh, two miles north of Damascus.
15 tn Heb “Moses sent to spy out.”
16 tn Heb “daughters.”
17 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Og) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 tn Heb “no remnant.”
19 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
20 tn The verse uses כֹּה (koh) twice: “Station yourself here…I will meet [the
21 tn Heb “any work [of] service”; this means any occupational work, that is, the ordinary service.
22 sn That is, the Mediterranean.
