Numbers 24:14 New English Translation
14 And now, I am about to go[a] back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in future days.”[b]
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- Numbers 24:14 tn The construction is the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) suffixed followed by the active participle. This is the futur instans use of the participle, to express something that is about to happen: “I am about to go.”
- Numbers 24:14 tn For “in future days,” see the note at Gen 49:1. For more on this expression, see E. Lipiński, “באחרית הימים dans les textes préexiliques,” VT 20 (1970): 445-50.
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