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Numbers 25:6
New English Translation
Numbers 25:6
New English Translation
6 Just then[a] one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers[b] a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of[c] the whole community of the Israelites, while they[d] were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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- Numbers 25:6 tn The verse begins with the deictic particle וְהִנֵּה (vehinneh), pointing out the action that was taking place. It stresses the immediacy of the action to the reader.
- Numbers 25:6 tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”
- Numbers 25:6 tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”
- Numbers 25:6 tn The vav (ו) at the beginning of the clause is a disjunctive because it is prefixed to the nonverbal form. In this context it is best interpreted as a circumstantial clause, stressing that this happened “while” people were weeping over the sin.
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