Discovery BoxNumbers 5:31 
Context5:31 Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences 1 of her iniquity.’” 2
Numbers 6:16
Context6:16 “‘Then the priest must present all these 3 before the Lord and offer 4 his purification offering and his burnt offering.
Numbers 10:5
Context10:5 When you blow an alarm, 5 then the camps that are located 6 on the east side must begin to travel. 7
Numbers 10:17
Context10:17 Then the tabernacle was dismantled, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.
Numbers 14:5
Context14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground 8 before the whole assembled community 9 of the Israelites.
Numbers 14:15
Context14:15 If you kill 10 this entire people at once, 11 then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
Numbers 15:27
Context15:27 “‘If any person 12 sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.
Numbers 16:12
Context16:12 Then Moses summoned 13 Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up. 14
Numbers 16:25
Context16:25 Then Moses got up 15 and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him.
Numbers 16:50
Context16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.
Numbers 20:20
Context20:20 But he said, “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them 16 with a large and powerful force. 17
Numbers 23:29
Context23:29 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”
Numbers 27:10
Context27:10 and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;
Numbers 30:15
Context30:15 But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity.” 18
Numbers 32:20
Context32:20 Then Moses replied, 19 “If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the Lord,
Numbers 32:42
Context32:42 Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.
Numbers 34:5
Context34:5 There the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and then its direction is to the sea. 20
Numbers 35:1
Context35:1 21 Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the Moabite plains by the Jordan near Jericho. 22 He said:
Numbers 35:24
Context35:24 then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.
1 sn The text does not say what the consequences are. Presumably the punishment would come from God, and not from those administering the test.
2 tn The word “iniquity” can also mean the guilt for the iniquity as well as the punishment of consequences for the iniquity. These categories of meanings grew up through figurative usage (metonymies). Here the idea is that if she is guilty then she must “bear the consequences.”
3 tn “all these” is supplied as the object.
4 tn Heb “make.”
5 tn The word for an alarm is תְּרוּעָה (tÿru’ah). The root verb of this word means “to give a blast on the trumpet.” It may also on occasion mean “give a shout” in battle (Josh 6:10). In this passage it must refer to the sound of the trumpet.
6 tn Heb “the camps that are camping.”
7 tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive functions as the equivalent of the imperfect tense. Here the emphasis is on the start of the journey.
8 sn This action of Moses and Aaron is typical of them in the wilderness with the Israelites. The act shows self-abasement and deference before the sovereign
9 tn Heb “before all the assembly of the congregation.”
10 tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of מוּת (mut), וְהֵמַתָּה (vÿhemattah). The vav (ו) consecutive makes this also a future time sequence verb, but again in a conditional clause.
11 tn Heb “as one man.”
12 tn The Hebrew text hasוְאִם־נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת (vÿ’im-nefesh ’akhat), sometime translated “and if any soul.” But the word describes the whole person, the soul in the body; it refers here to the individual who sins.
13 tn Heb “Moses sent to summon.” The verb קָרָא (qara’) followed by the lamed (ל) preposition does not mean “call to” but “summon.” This is a command performance; for them to appear would be to submit to Moses’ authority. This they will not do.
14 tn The imperfect tense נַעֲלֶה (na’aleh) expresses their unwillingness to report: “we are not willing,” or “we will not.” The verb means “to go up.” It is used in the sense of appearing before an authority or a superior (see, e.g., Gen 46:31; Deut 25:7; Judg 4:5).
15 tn Heb “rose up.”
16 tn Heb “to meet him.”
17 tn Heb “with many [heavy] people and with a strong hand.” The translation presented above is interpretive, but that is what the line means. It was a show of force, numbers and weapons, to intimidate the Israelites.
18 sn In other words, he will pay the penalty for making her break her vows if he makes her stop what she vowed. It will not be her responsibility.
19 tn Heb “said to them.”
20 sn That is, the Mediterranean.
21 sn This section has two main parts, the Levitical cities (vv. 1-8) and the Cities of Refuge (vv. 9-34).
22 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
