Discovery BoxNumbers 6:9 
Context6:9 “‘If anyone dies very suddenly 1 beside him and he defiles 2 his consecrated head, 3 then he must shave his head on the day of his purification – on the seventh day he must shave it.
Numbers 9:6
Context9:6 It happened that some men 4 who were ceremonially defiled 5 by the dead body of a man 6 could not keep 7 the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
Numbers 11:32
Context11:32 And the people stayed up 8 all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, 9 and they spread them out 10 for themselves all around the camp.
Numbers 29:1
Context29:1 “‘On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.
Numbers 30:14
Context30:14 But if her husband remains completely silent 11 about her from day to day, he thus confirms all her vows or all her obligations which she is under; he confirms them because he remained silent about when he heard them.
Numbers 31:19
Context31:19 “Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
Numbers 33:3
Context33:3 They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day 12 after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly 13 in plain sight 14 of all the Egyptians.
1 tn The construction uses the imperfect tense followed by the infinitive absolute, יָמוּת מֵת (yamut met). Because the verb is in a conditional clause, the emphasis that is to be given through the infinitive must stress the contingency. The point is “if someone dies – unexpectedly.” The next words underscore the suddenness of this.
2 tn The verb is the Piel perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive; it continues the idea within the conditional clause.
3 sn The expression is figurative for the vow that he took; the figure is the metonymy because the reference to the head is a reference to the long hair that symbolizes the oath.
4 tn In the Hebrew text the noun has no definite article, and so it signifies “some” or “certain” men.
5 tn The meaning, of course, is to be ceremonially unclean, and therefore disqualified from entering the sanctuary.
6 tn Or “a human corpse” (so NAB, NKJV). So also in v.7; cf. v. 10.
7 tn This clause begins with the vav (ו) conjunction and negative before the perfect tense. Here is the main verb of the sentence: They were not able to observe the Passover. The first part of the verse provides the explanation for their problem.
8 tn Heb “rose up, stood up.”
9 sn This is about two thousand liters.
10 tn The verb (a preterite) is followed by the infinitive absolute of the same root, to emphasize the action of spreading out the quail. Although it is hard to translate the expression, it indicates that they spread these quail out all over the area. The vision of them spread all over was evidence of God’s abundant provision for their needs.
11 tn The sentence uses the infinitive absolute to strengthen the idea.
12 tn Heb “morrow.”
13 tn Heb “with a high hand”; the expression means “defiantly; boldly” or “with confidence.” The phrase is usually used for arrogant sin and pride, the defiant fist, as it were. The image of the high hand can also mean the hand raised to deliver the blow (Job 38:15).
14 tn Heb “in the eyes.”
