Discovery BoxNumbers 4:32 
Context4:32 and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets, tent pegs, and ropes, along with all their furnishings and everything for their service. You are to assign by names the items that each man is responsible to carry. 1
Numbers 13:29
Context13:29 The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks 2 of the Jordan.” 3
Numbers 16:17
Context16:17 And each of you 4 take his censer, put 5 incense in it, and then each of you present his censer before the Lord: 250 censers, along with you, and Aaron – each of you with his censer.”
Numbers 20:19
Context20:19 Then the Israelites said to him, “We will go along the highway, and if we 6 or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.”
Numbers 21:1
Context21:1 7 When the Canaanite king of Arad 8 who lived in the Negev 9 heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.
Numbers 23:17
Context23:17 When Balaam 10 came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”
Numbers 28:9
Context28:9 “‘On the Sabbath day, you must offer 11 two unblemished lambs a year old, and two-tenths of an ephah 12 of finely ground flour as a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, along with its drink offering.
Numbers 29:11
Context29:11 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the purification offering for atonement and the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.
Numbers 31:12
Context31:12 They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the plains 13 of Moab, along the Jordan River 14 across from Jericho. 15
1 tn Heb “you shall assign by names the vessels of the responsibility of their burden.”
2 tn Heb “by the side [hand] of.”
3 sn For more discussion on these people groups, see D. J. Wiseman, ed., Peoples of Old Testament Times.
4 tn Heb “and take, a man, his censer.”
5 tn This verb and the following one are both perfect tenses with vav (ו) consecutives. Following the imperative they carry the same force, but in sequence.
6 tn The Hebrew text uses singular pronouns, “I” and “my,” but it is the people of Israel that are intended, and so it may be rendered in the plural. Similarly, Edom speaks in the first person, probably from the king. But it too could be rendered “we.”
7 sn This chapter has several events in it: the victory over Arad (vv. 1-3), the plague of serpents (vv. 4-9), the approach to Moab (vv. 10-20), and the victory over Sihon and Og (vv. 21-35). For information, see D. M. Gunn, “The ‘Battle Report’: Oral or Scribal Convention.” JBL 93 (1974): 513-18; and of the extensive literature on the archaeological site, see EAEHL 1:74-89.
8 sn The name Arad probably refers to a place a number of miles away from Tel Arad in southern Israel. The name could also refer to the whole region (like Edom).
9 tn Or “the south”; “Negev” has become a technical name for the southern desert region and is still in use in modern times.
10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn The words “you must offer” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied. They have been supplied in the translation to make a complete English sentence.
12 sn That is, about 4 quarts.
13 tn Or “steppes.”
14 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
15 tn Again this expression, “the Jordan of Jericho,” is used. It describes the intended location along the Jordan River, the Jordan next to or across from Jericho.
map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
