Discovery BoxNumbers 8:12 
Context8:12 When 1 the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer 2 the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, 3 to make atonement for the Levites.
Numbers 11:11
Context11:11 And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted 4 your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that 5 you lay the burden of this entire people on me?
1 tn The clause begins with a vav (ו) on the noun “the Levites,” indicating a disjunctive clause. Here it is clearly a subordinate clause prior to the instruction for Moses, and so translated as a circumstantial clause of time.
2 tn The imperative is from the verb “to do; to make,” but in the sentence it clearly means to sacrifice the animals.
3 sn The “purification offering” cleansed the tabernacle from impurity, and the burnt offering atoned by nullifying and removing the effects of sin in the Levites.
4 tn The verb is the Hiphil of רָעַע (ra’a’, “to be evil”). Moses laments (with the rhetorical question) that God seems to have caused him evil.
5 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition is expressing the result of not finding favor with God (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 12-13, §57). What Moses is claiming is that because he has been given this burden God did not show him favor.
