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Numbers 1–20: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Numbers—from the numbering or census of the people in the opening chapters—is a much-neglected part of the Torah, the five books of Moses, which constitutes the heart of Holy Scriptures for Jews, while also forming an integral part of the Bible for Christians. The book of Numbers is an account of the young would-be nation of Israel’s wanderings in the Wilderness after the magnificent...

themes, which would undo the work of the authors of JE who may have fused them initially. 12:1. spoke against. Idiomatic dibbēr b-, which occurs again in v 8, below, connotes actual rebellion or advocacy of the same. Thus the people “speak against” God in Num 21:5–7. For the idiom itself, see Ps 50:20; Job 19:18; and Ps 78:19 for an echo of this very episode. And yet it is likely that in this chapter a play on the ambiguity of dibbēr b- was intended.
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