Numbers 10:11; 14:45
Numbers 10:11
10:11 1 On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony. 2
Numbers 14:45
14:45 So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped 3 down and attacked them 4 as far as Hormah. 51 sn This section is somewhat mechanical: It begins with an introduction (vv. 11, 12), and then begins with Judah (vv. 13-17), followed by the rest of the tribes (vv. 18-27), and finally closes with a summary (v. 28). The last few verses (vv. 29-36) treat the departure of Hobab.
2 tc Smr inserts a lengthy portion from Deut 1:6-8, expressing the command for Israel to take the land from the Amorites.
tn The expression is difficult; it is מִשְׁכַּן הָעֵדֻת (mishkan ha’edut). The reference is to the sacred shrine that covered the ark with the commandments inside. NEB renders the expression as “tabernacle of the Token”; NAB has “the dwelling of the commandments.”
3 tn Heb “came down.”
4 tn The verb used here means “crush by beating,” or “pounded” them. The Greek text used “cut them in pieces.”
5 tn The name “Hormah” means “destruction”; it is from the word that means “ban, devote” for either destruction or temple use.
