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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.

imperative form or in which a plural imperative on its own would be awkward or overly ambiguous, GNT is a good model to follow. The English word census refers to the “value, total amount, sum” of items to be counted. The Hebrew expression for Take a census is literally “Lift up the head.” Some languages say “Count the heads.” Chewa has “Count up.” The Hebrew word for congregation (‘edah) is better rendered “community” (New Jewish Publication Society Version [NJPSV]). GNT omits ‘edah, perhaps because
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