Discovery BoxNumbers 7:3 
Context7:3 They brought 1 their offering before the Lord, six covered carts 2 and twelve oxen – one cart for every two of the leaders, and an ox for each one; and they presented them in front of the tabernacle.
Numbers 17:6
Context17:6 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each leader, 3 according to their tribes 4 – twelve staffs; the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.
Numbers 25:4
Context25:4 The Lord said to Moses, “Arrest all the leaders 5 of the people, and hang them up 6 before the Lord in broad daylight, 7 so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.”
Numbers 26:9
Context26:9 Eliab’s descendants were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram who as leaders of the community rebelled against Moses and Aaron with the followers 8 of Korah when they rebelled against the Lord.
Numbers 36:1
Context36:1 Then the heads of the family groups 9 of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses 10 and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. 11
1 tn Heb “and they brought.”
2 sn For a discussion and drawings, see W. S. McCullough, IDB 1:540. But see also D. J. Wiseman, IBD 1:254.
3 tn Heb “a rod for one leader, a rod for one leader.”
4 tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”
5 sn The meaning must be the leaders behind the apostasy, for they would now be arrested. They were responsible for the tribes’ conformity to the Law, but here they had not only failed in their duty, but had participated. The leaders were executed; the rest of the guilty died by the plague.
6 sn The leaders who were guilty were commanded by God to be publicly exposed by hanging, probably a reference to impaling, but possibly some other form of harsh punishment. The point was that the swaying of their executed bodies would be a startling warning for any who so blatantly set the Law aside and indulged in apostasy through pagan sexual orgies.
7 tn Heb “in the sun.” This means in broad daylight.
8 tn Or “company” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); Heb “congregation.”
9 tn The expression is “the heads of the fathers by the family of the Gileadites.”
10 tn The Greek and the Syriac add “and before Eleazar the priest.”
11 tn Heb “heads of the fathers.”
