Numbers 5:30
Context5:30 or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her.
Numbers 15:29
Context15:29 You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.
Numbers 19:2
Context19:2 “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded: ‘Instruct 1 the Israelites to bring 2 you a red 3 heifer 4 without blemish, which has no defect 5 and has never carried a yoke.
Numbers 19:14
Context19:14 “‘This is the law: When a man dies 6 in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
1 tn Heb “speak to.”
2 tn The line literally reads, “speak to the Israelites that [and] they bring [will bring].” The imperfect [or jussive] is subordinated to the imperative either as a purpose clause, or as the object of the instruction – speak to them that they bring, or tell them to bring.
3 tn The color is designated as red, although the actual color would be a tanned red-brown color for the animal (see the usage in Isa 1:18 and Song 5:10). The reddish color suggested the blood of ritual purification; see J. Milgrom, “The Paradox of the Red Cow (Num 19),” VT 31 (1981): 62-72.
4 sn Some modern commentators prefer “cow” to “heifer,” thinking that the latter came from the influence of the Greek. Young animals were usually prescribed for the ritual, especially here, and so “heifer” is the better translation. A bull could not be given for this purification ritual because that is what was given for the high priests or the community according to Lev 4.
5 tn Heb “wherein there is no defect.”
6 tn The word order gives the classification and then the condition: “a man, when he dies….”