Discovery BoxNumbers 5:22 
Context5:22 and this water that causes the curse will go 1 into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.” 2 Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.” 3
Numbers 10:35
Context10:35 And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!”
Numbers 11:21
Context11:21 Moses said, “The people around me 4 are 600,000 on foot; 5 but you say, ‘I will give them meat, 6 that they may eat 7 for a whole month.’
Numbers 14:28
Context14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live, 8 says 9 the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. 10
Numbers 21:27
Context21:27 That is why those who speak in proverbs 11 say,
“Come to Heshbon, let it be built.
Let the city of Sihon be established! 12
1 tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. It could be taken as a jussive following the words of the priest in the previous section, but it is more likely to be a simple future.
2 tn Heb “fall away.”
3 tn The word “amen” carries the idea of “so be it,” or “truly.” The woman who submits to this test is willing to have the test demonstrate the examination of God.
4 tn Heb “the people who I am in their midst,” i.e., among whom I am.
5 tn The Hebrew sentence stresses the number. The sentence begins “600,000….”
6 tn The word order places the object first here: “Meat I will give them.” This adds to the contrast between the number and the statement of the
7 tn The verb is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, carrying the sequence from the preceding imperfect tense. However, this verb may be subordinated to the preceding to express a purpose clause.
8 sn Here again is the oath that God swore in his wrath, an oath he swore by himself, that they would not enter the land. “As the
9 tn The word נְאֻם (nÿ’um) is an “oracle.” It is followed by the subjective genitive: “the oracle of the
10 tn Heb “in my ears.”
sn They had expressed the longing to have died in the wilderness, and not in war. God will now give them that. They would not say to God “your will be done,” so he says to them, “your will be done” (to borrow from C. S. Lewis).
11 sn Proverbs of antiquity could include pithy sayings or longer songs, riddles, or poems composed to catch the significance or the irony of an event. This is a brief poem to remember the event, like an Egyptian victory song. It may have originated as an Amorite war taunt song; it was sung to commemorate this victory. It was cited later by Jeremiah (48:45-46). The composer invites his victorious people to rebuild the conquered city as a new capital for Sihon. He then turns to address the other cities which his God(s) has/have given to him. See P. D. Hanson, “The Song of Heshbon and David’s Nir,” HTR 61 (1968): 301.
12 tn Meaning, “rebuilt and restored.”
