Numbers 11:22
Context11:22 Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”
Numbers 14:25
Context14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) 1 Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
Numbers 21:4
Context21:4 Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, 2 to go around the land of Edom, but the people 3 became impatient along the way.
Numbers 34:3
Context34:3 your southern border 4 will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea,
1 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.
2 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.
3 tn Heb “the soul of the people,” expressing the innermost being of the people as they became frustrated.
4 tn The expression refers to the corner or extremity of the Negev, the South.