Numbers 24:6

They are like ¹  valleys ²  stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes ³  that the Lord has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

Ge 2:8-10; Ge 13:10; Ps 1:3; Ps 92:12-14; Ps 104:16; So 4:12-15; So 6:11; Isa 41:19; Isa 58:11; Jer 17:18; Jer 31:12; Eze 31:3,4; Eze 47:12; Joe 3:18

¹ tn Heb “as valleys they spread forth.”

² tn Or “rows of palms.”

³ sn The language seems to be more poetic than precise. N. H. Snaith notes that cedars do not grow beside water; he also connects “aloes” to the eaglewood that is more exotic, and capable of giving off an aroma (Leviticus and Numbers [NCB], 298).