Numbers 17:10
New English Translation
The Memorial
10 The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end[a] before me, that they will not die.”[b]
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- Numbers 17:10 tn The verb means “to finish; to complete” and here “to bring to an end.” It is the imperfect following the imperative, and so introduces a purpose clause (as a final imperfect).
- Numbers 17:10 tn This is another final imperfect in a purpose clause.
Numbers 17:10
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
10 And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Put back the staff of Aaron before the covenant,[a] to be kept as a warning to rebels, so that you may make an end of their complaints against me, or else they will die.’
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- Numbers 17:10 Or treaty, or testimony; Heb eduth
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