Discovery BoxNumbers 6:20 
Context6:20 then the priest must wave them as a wave offering 1 before the Lord; it is a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering. 2 After this the Nazirite may drink 3 wine.’
Numbers 16:5
Context16:5 Then he said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning the Lord will make known who are his, and who is holy. He will cause that person 4 to approach him; the person he has chosen he will cause to approach him.
Numbers 16:38
Context16:38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, 5 they must be made 6 into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”
Numbers 18:17
Context18:17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash 7 their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Numbers 24:1
Context24:1 8 When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, 9 he did not go as at the other times 10 to seek for omens, 11 but he set his face 12 toward the wilderness.
Numbers 30:8
Context30:8 But if when her husband hears it he overrules her, then he will nullify 13 the vow she has taken, 14 and whatever she uttered impulsively which she has pledged for herself. And the Lord will release her from it.
Numbers 33:38
Context33:38 Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor at the command 15 of the Lord, and he died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt on the first day of the fifth month.
1 sn The ritual of lifting the hands filled with the offering and waving them in the presence of the
2 sn The “wave offering” may be interpreted as a “special gift” to be transferred to the
3 tn The imperfect tense here would then have the nuance of permission. It is not an instruction at this point; rather, the prohibition has been lifted and the person is free to drink wine.
4 tn Heb “him.”
5 tn The expression is “in/by/against their life.” That they sinned against their life means that they brought ruin to themselves.
6 tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. But there is no expressed subject for “and they shall make them,” and so it may be treated as a passive (“they shall [must] be made”).
7 tn Or “throw, toss.”
8 sn For a thorough study of the arrangement of this passage, see E. B. Smick, “A Study of the Structure of the Third Balaam Oracle,” The Law and the Prophets, 242-52. He sees the oracle as having an introductory strophe (vv. 3, 4), followed by two stanzas (vv. 5, 6) that introduce the body (vv. 7b-9b) before the final benediction (v. 9b).
9 tn Heb “it was good in the eyes of the
10 tn Heb “as time after time.”
11 tn The word נְחָשִׁים (nÿkhashim) means “omens,” or possibly “auguries.” Balaam is not even making a pretense now of looking for such things, because they are not going to work. God has overruled them.
12 tn The idiom signifies that he had a determination and resolution to look out over where the Israelites were, so that he could appreciate more their presence and use that as the basis for his expressing of the oracle.
13 tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive from the verb פָּרַר (parar, “to annul”). The verb functions here as the equivalent of an imperfect tense; here it is the apodosis following the conditional clause – if this is the case, then this is what will happen.
14 tn Heb “which [she is] under it.”
15 tn Heb “mouth.”
