Discovery BoxNumbers 14:13 
Context14:13 Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear 1 it – for you brought up this people by your power from among them –
Numbers 32:4
Context32:4 the land that the Lord subdued 2 before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”
1 tn The construction is unusual in that we have here a perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive with no verb before it to establish the time sequence. The context requires that this be taken as a vav (ו) consecutive. It actually forms the protasis for the next verse, and would best be rendered “when…then they will say.”
2 tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of נָכָה (nakhah), a term that can mean “smite, strike, attack, destroy.”
