Discovery BoxNumbers 10:7 
Context10:7 But when you assemble the community, 1 you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm. 2
Numbers 14:1
Context14:1 3 Then all the community raised a loud cry, 4 and the people wept 5 that night.
Numbers 16:21
Context16:21 “Separate yourselves 6 from among this community, 7 that I may consume them in an instant.”
Numbers 16:24
Context16:24 “Tell the community: ‘Get away 8 from around the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’”
Numbers 27:19
Context27:19 set him 9 before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community, and commission 10 him publicly. 11
Numbers 31:43
Context31:43 there were 337,500 sheep from the portion belonging to the community,
1 tn There is no expressed subject in the initial temporal clause. It simply says, “and in the assembling the assembly.” But since the next verb is the second person of the verb, that may be taken as the intended subject here.
2 sn The signal for moving camp was apparently different in tone and may have been sharper notes or a different sequence. It was in some way distinguishable.
3 sn This chapter forms part of the story already begun. There are three major sections here: dissatisfaction with the reports (vv. 1-10), the threat of divine punishment (vv. 11-38), and the defeat of the Israelites (vv. 39-45). See K. D. Sakenfeld, “The Problem of Divine Forgiveness in Num 14,” CBQ 37 (1975): 317-30; also J. R. Bartlett, “The Use of the Word רֹאשׁ as a Title in the Old Testament,” VT 19 (1969): 1-10.
4 tn The two verbs “lifted up their voice and cried” form a hendiadys; the idiom of raising the voice means that they cried aloud.
5 tn There are a number of things that the verb “to weep” or “wail” can connote. It could reflect joy, grief, lamentation, or repentance, but here it reflects fear, hopelessness, or vexation at the thought of coming all this way and being defeated by the Canaanite armies. See Judg 20:23, 26.
6 tn The verb is הִבָּדְלוּ (hibbadÿlu), the Niphal imperative of בָּדַל (badal). This is the same word that was just used when Moses reminded the Levites that they had been separated from the community to serve the
7 sn The group of people siding with Korah is meant, and not the entire community of the people of Israel. They are an assembly of rebels, their “community” consisting in their common plot.
8 tn The motif of “going up” is still present; here the Hebrew text says “go up” (the Niphal imperative – “go up yourselves”) from their tents, meaning, move away from them.
9 tn This could be translated “position him,” or “have him stand,” since it is the causative stem of the verb “to stand.”
10 tn The verb is the Piel perfect of צִוָּה (tsivvah, literally “to command”). The verb has a wide range of meanings, and so here in this context the idea of instructing gives way to a more general sense of commissioning for duty. The verb in sequence is equal to the imperfect of instruction.
11 tn Heb “in their eyes.”
