Discovery BoxNumbers 4:33 
Context4:33 This is the service of the families of the Merarites, their entire service concerning the tent of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
Numbers 4:45
Context4:45 These are those numbered from the families of the Merarites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.
Numbers 5:29
Context5:29 “‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, 1 when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,
Numbers 7:8
Context7:8 and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority 2 of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 10:13
Context10:13 This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment 3 of the Lord, by the authority 4 of Moses.
Numbers 15:23
Context15:23 all that the Lord has commanded you by the authority 5 of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and continuing through your future generations –
Numbers 27:20
Context27:20 Then you must delegate 6 some of your authority 7 to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient. 8
Numbers 31:49
Context31:49 and said to him, 9 “Your servants have taken a count 10 of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority, 11 and not one is missing.
Numbers 33:1
Context33:1 12 These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority 13 of Moses and Aaron.
1 tn Heb “law of jealousies.”
2 tn Heb “hand.”
3 tn Heb “mouth.”
4 tn Heb “hand.”
5 tn Heb “hand.”
6 tn The verb is simply “give,” but in this context giving some of Moses’ honor to Joshua in the presence of the people is essentially passing the leadership to him, or delegating the authority to him with the result that people would follow him.
7 tc The Greek, Syriac, and Vulgate read “glory” for this form that occurs only here in the Pentateuch. Elsewhere it is rendered “majesty, splendor” (see Ps 96:6). It could even be “vitality” here. The authority being transferred here is both spiritual and civil.
8 tn Heb “hear.”
9 tn Heb “to Moses”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
10 tn Heb “lifted up the head.”
11 tn Heb “in our hand.”
12 sn This material can be arranged into four sections: from Egypt to Sinai (vv. 1-15), the wilderness wanderings (vv. 16-36), from Kadesh to Moab (vv. 37-49), and final orders for Canaan (vv. 50-56).
13 tn Heb “hand.”
