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A Handbook on Numbers is part of the UBS Handbook Series. This is a series of “Helps for Translators” that present each book of the Bible from the unique perspective of Bible translators. This Handbook provides information about the book of Numbers that is especially important in helping translators and students of the Bible understand this book as it has come to us.

a man other than your husband, 21 then this curse applies [or, will fall] (here the priest is to put the woman under this curse of the oath):.…” Then … the LORD make you an execration and an oath among your people: When the woman is punished for adultery, other people will curse and denounce her. They will use her as an example in future curses. NIV renders this clause well with “may the LORD cause your people to curse and denounce you,” and so does FRCL with “may the Lord … so that your compatriots
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