Discovery BoxNumbers 8:6 
Context8:6 “Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify 1 them.
Numbers 9:4
Context9:4 So Moses instructed 2 the Israelites to observe 3 the Passover.
Numbers 21:10
Context21:10 4 The Israelites traveled on and camped in Oboth.
Numbers 21:31
Context21:31 So the Israelites 5 lived in the land of the Amorites.
Numbers 26:51
Context26:51 These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730. 6
Numbers 33:5
Context33:5 The Israelites traveled from Rameses and camped in Succoth.
1 tn The verb טָהַר (tahar) means that Moses was “to purify” or “to make ceremonially clean” the Levites so that they could enter the sanctuary and do the work prescribed for them. Whatever is “unclean” is not permitted in the sanctuary at all.
2 tn Heb “spoke to.”
3 tn The infinitive construct functions as the direct object of the preceding verb (a Hebrew complementary usage), answering the question of what he said.
4 sn See further D. L. Christensen, “Numbers 21:14-15 and the Book of the Wars of Yahweh,” CBQ 36 (1974): 359-60; G. W. Coats, “The Wilderness Itinerary,” CBQ 34 (1972): 135-52; G. I. Davies, “The Wilderness Itinerary,” TB 25 (1974): 46-81; idem, The Way of the Wilderness; G. E. Mendenhall, “The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine,” BA 25 (1962): 66-87.
5 tn Heb “Israel.”
6 sn This number shows only a slightly smaller total in the second census; the first was 603,550.
