Discovery BoxNumbers 4:7 
Context4:7 “On the table of the presence 1 they must spread a blue 2 cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring, and the Bread of the Presence must be on it continually.
Numbers 6:15
Context6:15 and a basket of bread made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast and smeared with olive oil, and their 3 grain offering and their drink offerings. 4
Numbers 6:17
Context6:17 Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering 5 to the Lord, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.
Numbers 14:9
Context14:9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. 6 Their protection 7 has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!”
Numbers 21:5
Context21:5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we 8 detest this worthless 9 food.”
1 sn The Hebrew actually has the “table of faces,” and this has been traditionally rendered “table of shewbread.”
2 tn The Greek has “violet” instead of blue. This is also the case in vv. 8, 10, and 14.
3 tn The suffixes in the MT are plural in this verse, whereas in v. 17 they are singular. This seems to be a matter of stylistic choice, referring to whomever may be taking the vow.
4 sn The offerings for the termination of the Nazirite vow would not have been inexpensive. This indicates that the person making the short term vow may have had income, or have come from a wealthier section of society. Short term vows had to be considered carefully as this ruling required a good amount of food to be brought.
5 tn The “peace offering” is usually written as “a sacrifice of peace” (זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים, zevakh shÿlamim). The word “sacrifice” is related to the word “to slaughter,” and so indicates that this is a bloody offering in celebration of peace with God.
6 sn The expression must indicate that they could destroy the enemies as easily as they could eat bread.
7 tn Heb “their shade.” The figure compares the shade from the sun with the protection from the enemy. It is also possible that the text is alluding to their deities here.
8 tn Heb “our souls.”
9 tn The Israelites’ opinion about the manna was clear enough – “worthless.” The word used is קְלֹקֵל (qÿloqel, “good for nothing, worthless, miserable”).
