Discovery BoxNumbers 6:17 
Context6:17 Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering 1 to the Lord, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.
Numbers 7:2
Context7:2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, 2 made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising 3 the numbering.
Numbers 11:8
Context11:8 And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. 4
Numbers 16:47
Context16:47 So Aaron did 5 as Moses commanded 6 and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people.
Numbers 21:9
Context21:9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived. 7
Numbers 25:13
Context25:13 So it will be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he has been zealous for his God, 8 and has made atonement 9 for the Israelites.’”
Numbers 28:2-3
Context28:2 “Command the Israelites: 10 ‘With regard to my offering, 11 be sure to offer 12 my food for my offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to me at its appointed time.’ 13 28:3 You will say to them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you must offer to the Lord: two unblemished lambs one year old each day for a continual 14 burnt offering.
Numbers 28:13
Context28:13 and one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
Numbers 28:19
Context28:19 “‘But you must offer to the Lord an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished. 15
Numbers 29:6
Context29:6 this is in addition to the monthly burnt offering and its grain offering, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings as prescribed, as a sweet aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the Lord.
Numbers 29:13
Context29:13 You must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs each one year old, all of them without blemish.
Numbers 29:36
Context29:36 But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish,
Numbers 30:12
Context30:12 But if her husband clearly nullifies 16 them when he hears them, then whatever she says 17 by way of vows or obligations will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the Lord will release her from them.
Numbers 32:13
Context32:13 So the Lord’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before 18 the Lord was finished. 19
1 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.
2 tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”
3 tn The form is the Qal active participle from the verb “to stand” (עָמַד, ’amad). The form describes these leaders as “the ones standing over [the ones numbered].” The expression, along with the clear indication of the first census in chapter 1, shows that this was a supervisory capacity.
4 tn Heb “And its taste was like the taste of fresh olive oil.”
5 tn Heb “took.”
6 tn Or “had spoken” (NASB); NRSV “had ordered.”
7 sn The image of the snake was to be a symbol of the curse that the Israelites were experiencing; by lifting the snake up on a pole Moses was indicating that the curse would be drawn away from the people – if they looked to it, which was a sign of faith. This symbol was later stored in the temple, until it became an object of worship and had to be removed (2 Kgs 18:4). Jesus, of course, alluded to it and used it as an illustration of his own mission. He would become the curse, and be lifted up, so that people who looked by faith to him would live (John 3:14). For further material, see D. J. Wiseman, “Flying Serpents,” TynBul 23 (1972): 108-10; and K. R. Joines, “The Bronze Serpent in the Israelite Cult,” JBL 87 (1968): 245-56.
8 tn The motif is reiterated here. Phinehas was passionately determined to maintain the rights of his God by stopping the gross sinful perversions.
9 sn The atonement that he made in this passage refers to the killing of the two obviously blatant sinners. By doing this he dispensed with any animal sacrifice, for the sinners themselves died. In Leviticus it was the life of the substitutionary animal that was taken in place of the sinners that made atonement. The point is that sin was punished by death, and so God was free to end the plague and pardon the people. God’s holiness and righteousness have always been every bit as important as God’s mercy and compassion, for without righteousness and holiness mercy and compassion mean nothing.
10 tn Heb “and say to them.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
11 tn Th sentence begins with the accusative “my offering.” It is suspended at the beginning as an independent accusative to itemize the subject matter. The second accusative is the formal object of the verb. It could also be taken in apposition to the first accusative.
12 tn The construction uses the imperfect tense expressing instruction, followed by the infinitive construct used to express the complement of direct object.
13 sn See L. R. Fisher, “New Ritual Calendar from Ugarit,” HTR 63 (1970): 485-501.
14 sn The sacrifice was to be kept burning, but each morning the priests would have to clean the grill and put a new offering on the altar. So the idea of a continual burnt offering is more that of a regular offering.
15 tn Heb “unblemished they will be to you.” So also in v. 31.
16 tn The verb is the imperfect tense in the conditional clause. It is intensified with the infinitive absolute, which would have the force of saying that he nullified them unequivocally, or he made them null and void.
17 tn Heb whatever proceeds from her lips.”
18 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
19 tn The verb is difficult to translate, since it has the idea of “complete, finish” (תָּמָם, tamam). It could be translated “consumed” in this passage (so KJV, ASV); NASB “was destroyed.”
