Numbers 27:14-16 New English Translation
14 For[a] in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you[b] rebelled against my command[c] to show me as holy[d] before their eyes over the water—the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”
15 Then Moses spoke to the Lord: 16 “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humankind,[e] appoint[f] a man over the community,
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- Numbers 27:14 tn The preposition on the relative pronoun has the force of “because of the fact that.”
- Numbers 27:14 tn The verb is the second masculine plural form.
- Numbers 27:14 tn Heb “mouth.”
- Numbers 27:14 sn Using the basic meaning of the word קָדַשׁ (qadash, “to be separate, distinct, set apart”), we can understand better what Moses failed to do. He was supposed to have acted in a way that would have shown God to be distinct, different, holy. Instead, he gave the impression that God was capricious and hostile—very human. The leader has to be aware of what image he is conveying to the people.
- Numbers 27:16 tn Heb “flesh”; cf. NAB, NIV “all mankind”; NCV “all people”; NLT “all living things.”
- Numbers 27:16 tn This is the same verb פָּקַד (paqad) that is used throughout the book for the aspect of “numbering” the people.
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