Numbers 26:54
Context26:54 To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, 1 and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. 2 To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it. 3
Numbers 35:2
Context35:2 “Instruct the Israelites to give 4 the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites 5 will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.
Numbers 35:6
Context35:6 Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. 6 And you must give them forty-two other towns.
Numbers 36:2
Context36:2 They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give 7 the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
1 tn Heb “to many you will multiply his inheritance.”
2 tn Heb “to a few you will lessen his inheritance.”
3 tn Heb “according to those that were numbered of him,” meaning, in accordance with the number of people in his clan.
4 tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive: “command…and they will give,” or “that they give.”
5 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn The “manslayer” is the verb “to kill” in a participial form, providing the subject of the clause. The verb means “to kill”; it can mean accidental killing, premeditated killing, or capital punishment. The clause uses the infinitive to express purpose or result: “to flee there the manslayer,” means “so that the manslayer may flee there.”
7 tn The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the