Discovery BoxNumbers 13:28 
Context13:28 But 1 the inhabitants 2 are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
Numbers 13:33
Context13:33 We even saw the Nephilim 3 there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves 4 and to them.” 5
Numbers 22:27
Context22:27 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.
Numbers 22:33
Context22:33 The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If 6 she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”
Numbers 22:41
Context22:41 Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal. 7 From there he saw the extent of the nation.
Numbers 24:2
Context24:2 When Balaam lifted up his eyes, he saw Israel camped tribe by tribe; 8 and the Spirit of God came upon him.
Numbers 25:7
Context25:7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, 9 he got up from among the assembly, took a javelin in his hand,
Numbers 32:1
Context32:1 10 Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle, 11
1 tn The word (אֶפֶס, ’efes) forms a very strong adversative. The land was indeed rich and fruitful, but….”
2 tn Heb “the people who are living in the land.”
3 tc The Greek version uses gigantes (“giants”) to translate “the Nephilim,” but it does not retain the clause “the sons of Anak are from the Nephilim.”
sn The Nephilim are the legendary giants of antiquity. They are first discussed in Gen 6:4. This forms part of the pessimism of the spies’ report.
4 tn Heb “in our eyes.”
5 tn Heb “in their eyes.”
6 tc Many commentators consider אוּלַי (’ulay, “perhaps”) to be a misspelling in the MT in place of לוּלֵי (luley, “if not”).
7 sn The name Bamoth Baal means “the high places of Baal.”
8 tn Heb “living according to their tribes.”
9 tn The first clause is subordinated to the second because both begin with the preterite verbal form, and there is clearly a logical and/or chronological sequence involved.
10 sn While the tribes are on the other side of Jordan, the matter of which tribes would settle there has to be discussed. This chapter begins the settlement of Israel into the tribal territories, something to be continued in Joshua. The chapter has the petitions (vv. 1-5), the response by Moses (vv. 6-15), the proposal (vv. 16-27), and the conclusion of the matter (vv. 28-42). For literature on this subject, both critical and conservative, see S. E. Loewenstein, “The Relation of the Settlement of Gad and Reuben in Numbers 32:1-38, Its Background and Its Composition,” Tarbiz 42 (1972): 12-26; J. Mauchline, “Gilead and Gilgal, Some Reflections on the Israelite Occupation of Palestine,” VT 6 (1956): 19-33; and A. Bergmann, “The Israelite Tribe of Half-Manasseh,” JPOS 16 (1936): 224-54.
11 tn Heb “the place was a place of/for cattle.”
