Discovery BoxNumbers 2:3 
Context2:3 “Now those who will be camping 1 on the east, toward the sunrise, 2 are the divisions 3 of the camp of Judah under their standard. The leader of the people of Judah is 4 Nahshon son of Amminadab.
Numbers 4:37
Context4:37 These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.
Numbers 4:41
Context4:41 These were those numbered from the families of the Gershonites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord.
Numbers 9:7
Context9:7 And those men said to him, “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”
Numbers 14:29
Context14:29 Your dead bodies 5 will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.
Numbers 18:16
Context18:16 And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel (which is twenty gerahs).
Numbers 26:62
Context26:62 Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
Numbers 26:64
Context26:64 But there was not a man among these who had been 6 among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 27:3
Context27:3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although 7 he was not part of 8 the company of those that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but he died for his own sin, 9 and he had no sons.
Numbers 31:8
Context31:8 They killed the kings of Midian in addition to those slain – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – five Midianite kings. 10 They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. 11
1 tn The sentence begins with a vav (ו) on a word that is not a finite verb, indicating a new section begins here. The verbal form is a participle with the article used substantivally, with the meaning “and/now those camping.” Many English versions employ a finite verb; cf. KJV “on the east side…shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch.”
2 tc The two synonyms might seem to be tautological, but this is fairly common and therefore acceptable in Hebrew prose (cf. Exod 26:18; 38:13; etc.).
3 tn The sentence actually has “[those camping…are] the standard of the camp of Judah according to their divisions.”
4 tn Or “will be.”
5 tn Or “your corpses” (also in vv. 32, 33).
6 tn “who had been” is added to clarify the text.
7 tn This clause begins with a vav (ו) on a pronoun, marking it out as a disjunctive vav. In this context it fits best to take it as a circumstantial clause introducing concession.
8 tn Heb “in the midst of.”
9 tn The word order is emphatic: “but in/on account of his own sins he died.”
10 sn Here again we see that there was no unified empire, but Midianite tribal groups.
11 sn And what was Balaam doing among the Midianites? The implication is strong. This pagan diviner had to submit to the revealed will of God in the oracles, but he nonetheless could be hired. He had been a part of the attempt to destroy Israel that failed; he then apparently became part of the plan, if not the adviser, to destroy them with sexual immorality and pagan ritual.
