Numbers 10:10 New English Translation
10 “Also, in the time when you rejoice, such as[a] on your appointed festivals or[b] at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may[c] become[d] a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”
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- Numbers 10:10 tn The conjunction may be taken as explicative or epexegetical, and so rendered “namely; even; that is,” or it may be taken as emphatic conjunction, and translated “especially.”
- Numbers 10:10 tn The vav (ו) is taken here in its alternative use and translated “or.”
- Numbers 10:10 tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. After the instruction imperfects, this form could be given the same nuance, or more likely, subordinated as a purpose or result clause.
- Numbers 10:10 tn The verb הָיָה (hayah, “to be”) has the meaning “to become” when followed by the preposition ל (lamed).
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