Discovery BoxNumbers 4:26 
Context4:26 the hangings for the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the court, 1 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. 2
Numbers 5:27
Context5:27 When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness – her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
Numbers 15:14
Context15:14 If a resident foreigner is living 3 with you – or whoever is among you 4 in future generations 5 – and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he must do it the same way you are to do it. 6
Numbers 15:25
Context15:25 And the priest is to make atonement 7 for the whole community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven, 8 because it was unintentional and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their purification offering before the Lord, for their unintentional offense.
Numbers 16:38
Context16:38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, 9 they must be made 10 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 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 11 their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Numbers 28:8
Context28:8 And the second lamb you must offer in the late afternoon; just as you offered the grain offering and drink offering in the morning, 12 you must offer it as an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Numbers 28:24
Context28:24 In this manner you must offer daily throughout the seven days the food of the sacrifice made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lord. It is to be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
1 tc This whole clause is not in the Greek text; it is likely missing due to homoioteleuton.
2 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.
3 tn The word גּוּר (gur) was traditionally translated “to sojourn,” i.e., to live temporarily in a land. Here the two words are from the root: “if a sojourner sojourns.”
4 tn Heb “in your midst.”
5 tn The Hebrew text just has “to your generations,” but it means in the future.
6 tn The imperfect tenses must reflect the responsibility to comply with the law, and so the classifications of instruction or obligation may be applied.
7 tn The verb is the Piel perfect with vav (ו) consecutive (וְכִפֶּר, vÿkhipper) to continue the instruction of the passage: “the priest shall make atonement,” meaning the priest is to make atonement for the sin (thus the present translation). This verb means “to expiate,” “to atone for,” “to pacify.” It describes the ritual events by which someone who was separated from the holy
8 tn Or “they will be forgiven.”
9 tn The expression is “in/by/against their life.” That they sinned against their life means that they brought ruin to themselves.
10 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”).
11 tn Or “throw, toss.”
12 tn Heb “as the grain offering of the morning and as its drink offering.”
