NUMBERS footnotes

See general note on abbreviations used in the Old Testament footnotes HERE.

3:22 Heb their number was

6:2 That is one separated or one consecrated
6:4 Or Naziriteship

9:16 Gk Syr Vg: Heb lacks by day

11:3 That is Burning
11:16-30 The account of the election of the seventy elders emphasizes the charismatic or prophetic basis of authority in the community.
11:34 That is Graves of craving

12:11 Heb lay not sin upon us

13:24 That is Cluster

16:36 Ch 17.1 in Heb

17:1 Ch 17.16 in Heb

18:7 Heb service of gift

20:13 That is Contention

21:3 Heb Destruction
21:4-9 The bronze serpent may have been the standard or symbol of the tribe of Levi, to which Moses and Aaron belonged. In Jn 3.14 it becomes a type of the saving cross of Christ.
21:16 That is Well
21:20 Or Jeshimon
21:24 Gk: Heb the boundary of the Ammonites was strong
21:30 Gk: Heb we have shot at them. Heshbon has perished
21:30 Compare Sam and Gk: Heb we have laid waste to Nophah which to Medeba

22:21-35 The story of Balaam and his ass is of popular origin. The oracles of this foreign seer, especially the fourth (24.15-19), refer to the Messianic king of the future, of whom David is the type.

23:10 Or dust clouds
23:28 Or Jeshimon

24:3 Or closed or perfect
24:15 Or closed or perfect
24:17 Heb corners (of the head)

26:4 Supplying take a census of the people. Compare verse 2

29:40 Ch 30.1 in Heb

32:41 That is the villages of Jair

34:6 Syr: Heb lacks its