Discovery BoxNumbers 9:14 
Context9:14 If a resident foreigner lives 1 among you and wants to keep 2 the Passover to the Lord, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its custom. You must have 3 the same 4 statute for the resident foreigner 5 and for the one who was born in the land.’”
Numbers 10:9
Context10:9 If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes 6 you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved 7 from your enemies.
Numbers 14:14
Context14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants 8 of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, 9 that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.
Numbers 21:22
Context21:22 “Let us 10 pass through your land; 11 we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.”
Numbers 21:34
Context21:34 And the Lord said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand. You will do to him what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.
Numbers 22:5-6
Context22:5 And he sent messengers to Balaam 12 son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates River 13 in the land of Amaw, 14 to summon him, saying, “Look, a nation has come out of Egypt. They cover the face 15 of the earth, and they are settling next to me. 22:6 So 16 now, please come and curse this nation 17 for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them 18 and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, 19 and whoever you curse is cursed.”
Numbers 32:29
Context32:29 Moses said to them: “If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the Lord’s presence, and you conquer the land, 20 then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.
Numbers 32:33
Context32:33 So Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the realm of King Sihon of the Amorites, and the realm of King Og of Bashan, the entire land with its cities and the territory surrounding them. 21
Numbers 33:54
Context33:54 You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral 22 tribes.
Numbers 35:5
Context35:5 “You must measure 23 from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, 24 and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. 25 This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.
1 tn The words translated “resident foreigner” and “live” are from the same Hebrew root, גּוּר (gur), traditionally translated “to sojourn.” The “sojourner” who “sojourns” is a foreigner, a resident alien, who lives in the land as a temporary resident with rights of land ownership.
2 tn The verb is the simple perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. It is therefore the equivalent to the imperfect that comes before it. The desiderative imperfect fits this usage well, since the alien is not required to keep the feast, but may indeed desire to do so.
3 tn The Hebrew text has “there will be to you,” which is the way of expressing possession in Hebrew. Since this is legal instruction, the imperfect tense must be instruction or legislation.
4 tn Or “you must have one statute.”
5 tn The conjunction is used here to specify the application of the law: “and for the resident foreigner, and for the one…” indicates “both for the resident foreigner and the one who….”
6 tn Both the “adversary” and “opposes” come from the same root: צָרַר (tsarar), “to hem in, oppress, harass,” or basically, “be an adversary.”
7 tn The Niphal perfect in this passage has the passive nuance and not a reflexive idea – the Israelites would be spared because God remembered them.
8 tn The singular participle is to be taken here as a collective, representing all the inhabitants of the land.
9 tn “Face to face” is literally “eye to eye.” It only occurs elsewhere in Isa 52:8. This expresses the closest communication possible.
10 tn The Hebrew text uses the singular in these verses to match the reference to “Israel.”
11 tc Smr has “by the King’s way I will go. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.”
12 sn There is much literature on pagan diviners and especially prophecy in places in the east like Mari (see, for example, H. B. Huffmon, “Prophecy in the Mari Letters,” BA 31 [1968]: 101-24). Balaam appears to be a pagan diviner who was of some reputation; he was called to curse the Israelites, but God intervened and gave him blessings only. The passage forms a nice complement to texts that deal with blessings and curses. It shows that no one can curse someone whom God has blessed.
13 tn Heb “by the river”; in most contexts this expression refers to the Euphrates River (cf. NAB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
14 tn Heb “in the land of Amaw” (cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV); traditionally “in the land of the sons of his people.” The LXX has “by the river of the land.”
15 tn Heb “eye.” So also in v. 11.
16 tn The two lines before this verse begin with the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh), and so they lay the foundation for these imperatives. In view of those circumstances, this is what should happen.
17 tn Heb “people.” So also in vv. 10, 17, 41.
18 tn The construction uses the imperfect tense אוּכַל (’ukhal, “I will be able”) followed by the imperfect tense נַכֶּה (nakkeh, “we will smite/attack/defeat”). The second verb is clearly the purpose or the result of the first, even though there is no conjunction or particle.
19 tn The verb is the Piel imperfect of בָּרַךְ (barakh), with the nuance of possibility: “whomever you may bless.” The Pual participle מְבֹרָךְ (mÿvorakh) serves as the predicate.
20 tn Heb “and the land is subdued before you.”
21 tn Heb “the land with its cities in the borders of the cities of the land all around.”
22 tn Heb “of your fathers.”
23 tn The verb is the Qal perfect of מָדַד (madad, “to measure”). With its vav (ו) consecutive it carries the same instructional force as the imperfect.
24 tn Heb “two thousand cubits” (also three more times in this verse). This would be a distance of 3,000 feet or 1,000 yards (1,350 meters).
25 sn The precise nature of the layout described here is not altogether clear. V. 4 speaks of the distance from the wall as being 500 yards; v. 5, however, describes measurements of 1,000 yards. Various proposals have been made in order to harmonize vv. 4 and 5. P. J. Budd, Numbers (WBC), 376, makes the following suggestion: “It may be best to assume that the cubits of the Levitical pasture lands are cubit frontages of land – in other words on each side of the city there was a block of land with a frontage of two thousand cubits (v 5), and a depth of 1000 cubits (v 4).”
