A Handbook on Numbers (Biblia.com)

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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.

13:3 they are sent from the wilderness of Paran, which was more to the south. These two locations are combined in 13:26, which says “in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh.” The fact that Kadesh is located in both wildernesses may well indicate that it was on the border of those areas. More importantly, while 31:16 blames Balaam for persuading the women of Midian to tempt the Israelites into worshiping another god, chapters 22–24 present a more positive, or at least a more ambivalent picture of him.

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