Discovery BoxNumbers 4:4 
Context4:4 This is the service of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting, relating to the most holy things. 1
Numbers 8:9
Context8:9 You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.
Numbers 10:3
Context10:3 When 2 they blow 3 them both, all the community must come 4 to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 16:50
Context16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.
Numbers 17:4
Context17:4 You must place them 5 in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant 6 where I meet with you.
Numbers 18:22
Context18:22 No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin 7 and die.
1 tn The Hebrew text simply has “the holy of holies,” or “the holy of the holy things” (קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים, qodesh haqqodashim). The context indicates that this refers to all the sacred furnishings.
2 tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated as a temporal clause to the following similar verbal construction.
3 tn The verb תָקַע (taqa’) means “to strike, drive, blow a trumpet.”
4 tn Heb “the assembly shall assemble themselves.”
5 tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of נוּחַ (nuakh, “to rest”), and so “to set at rest, lay, place, put.” The form with the vav (ו) consecutive continues the instruction of the previous verse.
6 tn The Hebrew text simply reads “the covenant” or “the testimony.”
7 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive construct of the verb “to bear” with the lamed (ל) preposition to express the result of such an action. “To bear their sin” would mean that they would have to suffer the consequences of their sin.
