Discovery BoxNumbers 25:11 
Context25:11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal 1 for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal. 2
Numbers 28:2
Context28:2 “Command the Israelites: 3 ‘With regard to my offering, 4 be sure to offer 5 my food for my offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to me at its appointed time.’ 6
1 tn Heb “he was zealous with my zeal.” The repetition of forms for “zeal” in the line stresses the passion of Phinehas. The word “zeal” means a passionate intensity to protect or preserve divine or social institutions.
2 tn The word for “zeal” now occurs a third time. While some English versions translate this word here as “jealousy” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), it carries the force of God’s passionate determination to defend his rights and what is right about the covenant and the community and parallels the “zeal” that Phinehas had just demonstrated.
3 tn Heb “and say to them.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Th sentence begins with the accusative “my offering.” It is suspended at the beginning as an independent accusative to itemize the subject matter. The second accusative is the formal object of the verb. It could also be taken in apposition to the first accusative.
5 tn The construction uses the imperfect tense expressing instruction, followed by the infinitive construct used to express the complement of direct object.
6 sn See L. R. Fisher, “New Ritual Calendar from Ugarit,” HTR 63 (1970): 485-501.
