Discovery BoxNumbers 5:20 
Context5:20 But if you 1 have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….” 2
Numbers 11:20
Context11:20 but a whole month, 3 until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, 4 because you have despised 5 the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why 6 did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”
Numbers 14:34
Context14:34 According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for 7 your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me. 8
Numbers 15:15
Context15:15 One statute must apply 9 to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent 10 statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike 11 before the Lord.
Numbers 15:20
Context15:20 You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour 12 as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up.
Numbers 16:14
Context16:14 Moreover, 13 you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind 14 these men? We will not come up.”
Numbers 18:28
Context18:28 Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the Lord of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the Lord’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest.
Numbers 22:20
Context22:20 God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”
Numbers 22:32
Context22:32 The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing 15 is perverse before me. 16
Numbers 23:13
Context23:13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there.”
Numbers 28:26
Context28:26 “‘Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.
Numbers 29:1
Context29:1 “‘On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.
Numbers 29:12
Context29:12 “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the Lord for seven days.
Numbers 35:6
Context35:6 Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. 17 And you must give them forty-two other towns.
1 tn The pronoun is emphatic – “but you, if you have gone astray.”
2 tn This is an example of the rhetorical device known as aposiopesis, or “sudden silence.” The sentence is broken off due to the intensity or emphasis of the moment. The reader is left to conclude what the sentence would have said.
3 tn Heb “a month of days.” So also in v. 21.
4 tn The expression לְזָרָה (lÿzarah) has been translated “ill” or “loathsome.” It occurs only here in the Hebrew Bible. The Greek text interprets it as “sickness.” It could be nausea or vomiting (so G. B. Gray, Numbers [ICC], 112) from overeating.
5 sn The explanation is the interpretation of their behavior – it is in reality what they have done, even though they would not say they despised the
6 tn The use of the demonstrative pronoun here (“why is this we went out …”) is enclitic, providing emphasis to the sentence: “Why in the world did we ever leave Egypt?”
7 tn Heb “you shall bear.”
8 tn The phrase refers to the consequences of open hostility to God, or perhaps abandonment of God. The noun תְּנוּאָה (tÿnu’ah) occurs in Job 33:10 (perhaps). The related verb occurs in Num 30:6 HT (30:5 ET) and 32:7 with the sense of “disallow, discourage.” The sense of the expression adopted in this translation comes from the meticulous study of R. Loewe, “Divine Frustration Exegetically Frustrated,” Words and Meanings, 137-58.
9 tn The word “apply” is supplied in the translation.
10 tn Or “a statute forever.”
11 tn Heb “as you, as [so] the alien.”
12 tn Or “the first of your dough.” The phrase is not very clear. N. H. Snaith thinks it means a batch of loaves from the kneading trough – the first batch of the baking (Leviticus and Numbers [NCB], 251).
13 tn Here אַף (’af) has the sense of “in addition.” It is not a common use.
14 tn Heb “will you bore out the eyes of these men?” The question is “Will you continue to mislead them?” (or “hoodwink” them). In Deut 16:19 it is used for taking a bribe; something like that kind of deception is intended here. They are simply stating that Moses is a deceiver who is misleading the people with false promises.
15 tn Heb “your way.”
16 tn The verb יָרַט (yarat) occurs only here and in Job 16:11. Balaam is embarking on a foolish mission with base motives. The old rendering “perverse” is still acceptable.
17 tn The “manslayer” is the verb “to kill” in a participial form, providing the subject of the clause. The verb means “to kill”; it can mean accidental killing, premeditated killing, or capital punishment. The clause uses the infinitive to express purpose or result: “to flee there the manslayer,” means “so that the manslayer may flee there.”
