Numbers 14:4
Context14:4 So they said to one another, 1 “Let’s appoint 2 a leader 3 and return 4 to Egypt.”
Numbers 15:12
Context15:12 You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.
Numbers 28:21-22
Context28:21 For each of the seven lambs you are to offer one-tenth of an ephah, 28:22 as well as one goat for a purification offering, to make atonement for you.
Numbers 28:30
Context28:30 as well as one male goat to make an atonement for you.
Numbers 29:5
Context29:5 with one male goat for a purification offering to make an atonement for you;
1 tn Heb “a man to his brother.”
2 tn The verb is נָתַן (natan, “to give”), but this verb has quite a wide range of meanings in the Bible. Here it must mean “to make,” “to choose,” “to designate” or the like.
3 tn The word “head” (רֹאשׁ, ro’sh) probably refers to a tribal chief who was capable to judge and to lead to war (see J. R. Bartlett, “The Use of the Word רֹאשׁ as a Title in the Old Testament,” VT 19 [1969]: 1-10).
4 tn The form is a cohortative with a vav (ו) prefixed. After the preceding cohortative this could also be interpreted as a purpose or result clause – in order that we may return.