Discovery BoxNumbers 4:14 
Context4:14 Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there – the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar – and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles. 1
Numbers 4:26
Context4:26 the hangings for the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the court, 2 which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, along with all the furnishings for their service and everything that is made for them. So they are to serve. 3
Numbers 16:38
Context16:38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, 4 they must be made 5 into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”
Numbers 16:46
Context16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord – the plague has begun!”
Numbers 18:7
Context18:7 But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service; but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”
Numbers 18:17
Context18:17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash 6 their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
1 tc For this passage the Greek and Smr have a substantial addition concerning the purple cloth for the laver and its base, and a further covering of skin (see D. W. Gooding, “On the Use of the LXX for Dating Midrashic Elements in the Targums,” JTS 25 [1974]: 1-11).
2 tc This whole clause is not in the Greek text; it is likely missing due to homoioteleuton.
3 tn The work of these people would have been very demanding, since the size and weight of the various curtains and courtyard hangings would have been great. For a detailed discussion of these, see the notes in the book of Exodus on the construction of the items.
4 tn The expression is “in/by/against their life.” That they sinned against their life means that they brought ruin to themselves.
5 tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. But there is no expressed subject for “and they shall make them,” and so it may be treated as a passive (“they shall [must] be made”).
6 tn Or “throw, toss.”
