THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Numbers

1:16a summoned: That is, those who were habitually called to undertake the matters of the assembly.
1:20a generations: As Gen. 2:4, throughout this chapter.
3:1a generations: As Gen. 2:4.
3:3b consecrated: See Ex. 28:41.
3:9c of: Or 'on behalf of.'
3:16d commandment: Lit. 'mouth:' as very frequently in Numbers.
3:25a curtain: Or 'covering,' so ver. 26, and ch. 4:25, 26; see also Ex. 26:36.
3:31b curtain: Masach, as in ver. 25, but here the 'veil' as in Ex. 26:31.
4:3a service: Tsaba. Service to which one is subjected: elsewhere 'labour,' 'suffering,' 'military service,' and so 'labour' in vers. 30, 35, 39, 43: see ch. 26:2; Isa. 40:2.
4:5b separation: Masach; see Ex. 35:12.
4:9a light: As Ex. 25:6.
4:12b sanctuary: Kodesh; see Ex. 25:8.
4:13c ashes: See Lev. 1:16.
4:15d things: Or 'the sanctuary:' so in ver. 20. Same as 'sanctuary' vers. 12, 15, 16.
4:16e incense: See Ex. 30:7.
4:19f things: Or 'unto the holy of holies;' see Ex. 26:33.
4:20g moment: Lit. 'like a swallowing (of spittle):' Job 7:19.
4:23h service: Or 'work,' as ch. 3:7, 8.
4:27a appoint: As 'number,' ver. 32.
4:30b, 4:35b, 4:39b, 4:43b labour: See Note at ver. 3.
4:32c materials: As 'instruments' above.
4:37d through: Lit. 'by the hand of,' here and often elsewhere.
5:8a kinsman: 'One who has the right of redemption,' as Lev. 25:25.
5:15b offering: Corban. Lev. 1:2.
5:19a husband: Or 'if thou being under thy husband hast not gone astray in uncleanness.'
5:26b burn: See Lev. 1:9, Note i.
6:2c Nazarite: 'Nazarite,' 'consecration,' 'separation' in this chapter are from the same Hebrew root nazar, see Lev. 21:12. Used also for 'crown,' 2Kings 11:12; Ps. 89:39; 132:18, and for 'diadem,' Ex. 29:6; Lev. 8:9.
6:4a seed-stones: Others, 'sour grapes.'
6:5b grow: Grow freely.
6:12c forfeited: Lit. 'fall.'
6:26a give: Lit. 'set,' 'put on.'
7:3b offering: Corban. Lev. 1:2.
7:15c lamb: A male lamb; and so throughout the chapter.
8:2a lightest: See Ex. 25:37.
8:7b sin: See ch. 19:9.
8:11c offer: Lit. 'wave:' so vers. 13, 15, 21, and Lev. 7:30.
8:24a labour: See ch. 4:23.
9:7a offering: Corban, Lev. 1:2, 'a thing presented.'
9:14b stranger: Or 'sojourner,' as Ex. 12:48; Lev. 20:2.
9:17c still: Lit. 'dwelt,' 'abode:' so ver. 18; ch. 10:12; see Ex. 24:16.
9:21d cloud: Others read 'whether it was by day or by night when the cloud.'
9:22e days: Elsewhere also 'a year.'
10:2a together: See Ex. 12:16.
10:9b enemy: Tzar. Or 'oppressor.'
10:10c moons: Or 'the beginnings of your months.'
10:12d journeys: Or 'their marching order.'
10:30a kindred: Or 'birthplace.'
11:1b evil: Or 'that the people became like men complaining of evil.'
11:3c Taberah: 'Burning.'
11:7d appearance: Lit. 'eye.'
11:8a oil-cakes: Others, 'fresh oil.'
11:25b it: So the LXX. The A.V. 'and ceased not,' follows a different punctuation of the Hebrew.
11:28a men: Or 'select ones;' others, 'an attendant from his youth up.'
11:31b sea: Or the west.
11:34c Kibroth-hattaavah: Graves of lust.
12:1d Ethiopian: Or 'Cushite.'
12:2e to: Or 'through.'
12:3f meek: Or 'lowly,' 'humble.'
12:8g openly: Or 'visibly.'
12:14a shut: Or 'shut up.'
13:3b heads: Lit. 'men, heads.'
13:16c Hoshea: Deliverance.
13:16d Jehoshua: Jehovah is Saviour.
13:17e south: Or 'by the south country:' see Gen. 12:9.
13:21f towards: Or 'at the entrance of.'
13:24g Eshcol: Valley of the bunch of grapes.
14:1a cried: Lit. 'lifted up and gave their voice.'
14:5b congregation: See Note, Ex. 12:3.
14:9c defence: Lit. 'shade.'
14:11d believe: Or 'trust.'
14:12a destroy: Elsewhere 'dispossess.'
14:23b, 14:30b wise: Lit. 'if they shall: ' a strong testifying negative in Hebrew, already noticed, Gen. 21:23; and see Num. 32:11; Heb. 3:11.
14:24c in: Lit. 'with.'
14:28d live: See Note, Gen. 24:38; 'saith' is as Gen. 22:16.
14:33a wander: 'feed,' as 1Sam. 25:16.
14:43b from: Lit. 'from after.'
14:44c presumed: Lit. 'rose up presumptuously.'
14:45d Hormah: 'Utter destruction,' or 'devoted by curse to destruction:' see ch. 21:3.
15:3e, 15:8e performance: Or 'for dedication.'
15:4f offering: Corban, see Lev. 1:2.
15:8g bullock: or 'calf.'
15:19a, 15:20a offer: Lit. 'heave:' see Lev. 8:27; 22:15.
15:20b, 15:21b dough: Same as Ezek. 44:30 and 'coarse meal,' Neh. 10:37.
15:38a, 15:39a tassels: Or 'fringes' or 'a flower,' i.e. to attract attention.
16:2b to: Or 'of note in,' ch. 1:16.
16:24a, 16:27a habitation: 'Tabernacle,' as ver. 9 and Ex. 25:9,
16:30b thing: Lit. 'create a creation.'
16:30c Sheol: See Note, Gen. 37:35.
16:38a forfeited: Or 'sinned against.'
16:40b burn: See Ex. 29:13.
16:40c him: That is, Eleazar.
18:2a unite: See Note, Gen. 29:34.
18:9b offering: Corban, Lev. 1:2.
18:10a holy: Or 'in the most holy place:' but see Ex. 29:37.
18:12b best: Lit. 'fat:' so vers. 29, 30, 32.
18:17c burn: See Lev. 1:9.
18:19d offer: Lit. 'heave:' so all through this passage to ver. 29, as ch. 15:19.
18:21e for: Lit. 'in exchange for;' and so ver. 31.
18:23f they: That is, the Levites.
18:29a, 18:30a, 18:32a best: Lit. 'fat,' as ver. 12.
18:31b for: See ver. 21.
19:5c burn, 19:8c burned: Consume wholly: so ver. 17. See Ex. 29:34; Lev. 4:12.
19:9d sin: Or 'sin-offering:' see ch. 8:7, Gen. 4:7.
19:11e body: Lit. 'soul.'
19:12f purify: Lit. 'purify from sin;' and so all through this passage.
19:16a fields: Lit. 'on the face of the fields.'
20:13a Meribah: Contention.
21:1b south: See ch. 13:17, and Gen. 12:9.
21:1c Atharim: Some read 'the spies.'
21:3a Hormah: See ch. 14:45.
21:4b impatient: Or 'was wearied.'
21:8c upon: Lit. 'seeth.'
21:9d brass: Or 'copper.'
21:9e beheld: 'looked intently at:' so ch. 23:21.
21:11f Ijim-Abarim: Or 'heaps of Abarim.'
21:14g, 21:15g brooks: Elsewhere 'torrents.'
21:15h Ar: Or 'Shebeth-Ar.'
21:16i Beer: Well.
21:17k sing: Or 'answer,' 'respond,' as Hos. 2:25.
21:18l lawgiver: Or 'with the ruler's wand,' Gen. 49:10.
21:25a, 21:32a villages: Lit. 'daughters:' see Note at 2Sam. 20:19.
21:29b escaped: Or 'his sons to be fugitives.'
21:30c them: Or 'have laid them low.'
21:30d Medeba: Or 'with fire unto Medeba.'
22:1e from: Or 'of.' The Hebrew word is employed for both sides of the Jordan: see ch. 32:19.
22:3f distressed: The word implies 'fear' and 'aversion,' Ex. 1:12.
22:5g in: Or 'of.'
22:5a face: Lit. 'eye:' so ver. 11.
22:8b princes: 'Lords' or 'heads.'
22:21c ass: 'She-ass,' all through.
22:22d him: Lit. 'as an adversary against him.'
22:32a thee: Lit. 'as an adversary,' see ver. 22.
23:3b hill: Or 'elevated place,' 'a high conspicuous place.'
23:7a parable: The same word is used for proverb.
23:7b Aram: Syria.
23:14c field: Or 'Zophim.'
23:22d him: Lit. 'them.'
23:22e strength: Or 'rapidity,' here and ch. 24:8.
23:22f buffalo: Or 'he (�God) is for him (Israel) as the strength of,' &c.: here and ch. 24:8.
23:23g time: Lit. 'according to the time,' i.e. at the end of the journey the through the wilderness; the Hebrew prefix to the word, meaning 'according to,' makes it a general principle.
24:1a for: Lit. 'meet.'
24:3b, 24:4b saith: See Gen. 22:16.
24:8c strength, buffalo: See ch. 23:22, Notes e and f.
24:8d break: Or 'gnaw.'
24:8e pieces: Or 'shall break their arrows.'
24:15a, 24:16a saith: See Gen. 22:16.
24:17b destroy: Lit. 'undermine.'
24:17c tumult: See Jer. 48:45.
24:19d remaineth: Or 'what remaineth out of the city.'
24:23e doeth: Lit. 'establisheth.' See Ps. 89:29.
24:24f Chittim: i.e. Cyprus, as Isa. 23:1.
25:3g Baal-Peor: Or 'to the Baal of Peor.'
26:2a service: See ch. 4:3.
26:4b Moses, 26:5b Reuben: Or 'commanded Moses. The children of Israel who went forth out of the land of Egypt were: Reuben.'
26:9c summoned: See ch. 1:16.
26:10d sign: Lit. 'standard.'
26:44a Jimnites: Lit. 'family of Jimnah.'
26:56b number: Or 'be it much or little.'
27:11a right: Or 'judgment.'
27:14b word: Lit. 'mouth,' as ch. 3:16.
27:14c Meribah: As ch. 20:13.
27:21a word: Lit. 'mouth,' as ch. 3:16.
28:2b offering: Corban, Lev. 1:2.
28:3c lambs: Or 'lambs of the first year;' and so often.
28:6d ordained: Lit. 'made.'
28:26a weeks: Or 'in your feast of weeks.'
30:15a way: Or 'expressly,' as ver. 12.
31:3a go: Lit. 'be.'
31:6b instruments: Or 'instruments of the sanctuary.'
31:6c even: Or 'and.'
31:12d captives: Lit. 'captivity.'
31:16e counsel: Lit. 'word.' Dabar. See Note, Ps. 119:11.
31:16f sin: Strictly, 'unfaithfulness,' 'perfidy,' as Lev. 5:15.
31:19g person: Lit. 'soul.'
31:19h, 31:20h purify: See ch. 19:12.
31:23i through: Lit. 'that which enters into.'
31:23a purified: See ch. 19:12.
31:32b, 31:36b sheep: Strictly, 'small cattle,' sheep and goats.
31:50c offering: Corban, Lev. 1:2.
31:52a offered: Lit. 'heaved,' as ch. 18:19; Lev. 22:15.
32:7b discourage: Lit. 'prohibit the heart of:' so ver. 9.
32:11c see: Or 'The men that ... shall in no wise see:' see Note, ch. 14:23.
32:16d sheepfolds: Strictly, 'walled enclosures for small cattle;' and so vers. 24, 36.
32:39a they: Or 'he.'
32:41b Havoth-Jair: 'Villages of tents,' see Deut. 3:14 and Note.
32:42a villages: Lit. 'its daughters,' as ch. 21:25.
33:3b journeyed: Or 'removed;' the word means strictly 'to break up a camp.' Gen. 11:2.
33:40a south: See chs. 13:17; 21:1; Gen. 12:9.
33:44b Ijim-Abarim: The heaps of Abarim.
33:46c Almon-Diblathaim: Or 'Almon near Diblathaim.
33:49d Abel-Shittim: Or 'plain of acacias.'
34:4a end: Lit. 'its goings forth shall be;' and so often.
34:6b sea: i.e., the Mediterranean.
34:11c extremity: Lit. 'shoulder.'
35:5a without: * The city was in the centre and the suburbs extended from the city wall 1,000 cubits on all sides. The full length across each side was 2,000 cubits plus the measurement of the city.
35:12b avenger: See Note, Ps. 69:18.
35:16c murderer: Lit. 'slayer;' and so elsewhere.
35:19a avenger: See Note, Ps. 69:18.
35:22b anything: 'Object' or 'instrument' of any sort.
35:24c judgments: Or 'ordinances,' Mishpat.
35:27d avenger: See ver. 12.
35:29e right: Or 'judgment,' as ch. 27:11.
35:30f death: Lit. 'shall the slayer be slain.'
35:30g testify: Lit. 'answer.'
35:31h life: Lit. 'soul.'
36:5a word: Lit. 'mouth.'
36:6b please: Lit. 'him who is good in their eyes,' as elsewhere.
36:12c remained: Lit. 'was.'
36:13d through: Or 'by the hand of,' as elsewhere.

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