Discovery BoxNumbers 11:11 
Context11:11 And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted 1 your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that 2 you lay the burden of this entire people on me?
Numbers 22:34
Context22:34 Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood against me in the road. 3 So now, if it is evil in your sight, 4 I will go back home.” 5
Numbers 32:5
Context32:5 So they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, 6 let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross 7 the Jordan River.” 8
Numbers 32:22
Context32:22 and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the Lord’s sight.
Numbers 33:3
Context33:3 They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day 9 after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly 10 in plain sight 11 of all the Egyptians.
1 tn The verb is the Hiphil of רָעַע (ra’a’, “to be evil”). Moses laments (with the rhetorical question) that God seems to have caused him evil.
2 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition is expressing the result of not finding favor with God (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 12-13, §57). What Moses is claiming is that because he has been given this burden God did not show him favor.
3 sn Balaam is not here making a general confession of sin. What he is admitting to is a procedural mistake. The basic meaning of the word is “to miss the mark.” He now knows he took the wrong way, i.e., in coming to curse Israel.
4 sn The reference is to Balaam’s way. He is saying that if what he is doing is so perverse, so evil, he will turn around and go home. Of course, it did not appear that he had much of a chance of going forward.
5 tn The verb is the cohortative from “return”: I will return [me].
6 tn Heb “eyes.”
7 tn The verb is the Hiphil jussive from עָבַר (’avar, “to cross over”). The idea of “cause to cross” or “make us cross” might be too harsh, but “take across” with the rest of the nation is what they are trying to avoid.
8 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “morrow.”
10 tn Heb “with a high hand”; the expression means “defiantly; boldly” or “with confidence.” The phrase is usually used for arrogant sin and pride, the defiant fist, as it were. The image of the high hand can also mean the hand raised to deliver the blow (Job 38:15).
11 tn Heb “in the eyes.”
