Numbers 15:14 New English Translation
14 If a resident foreigner is living[a] with you—or whoever is among you[b] in future generations[c]—and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he must do it the same way you are to do it.[d]
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- Numbers 15:14 tn The word גּוּר (gur) was traditionally translated “to sojourn,” i.e., to live temporarily in a land. Here the two words are from the root: “if a sojourner sojourns.”
- Numbers 15:14 tn Heb “in your midst.”
- Numbers 15:14 tn The Hebrew text just has “to your generations,” but it means in the future.
- Numbers 15:14 tn The imperfect tenses must reflect the responsibility to comply with the law, and so the classifications of instruction or obligation may be applied.
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