Numbers

The word “like” is written. They were as people murmuring. Ra is evil, what is bad, in his ears.

Taberah is the name. It is built from the verb “burned,” and the verse says why.

Asafsuf is the gathered crowd, the mixed group in the camp. Hit’avvu ta’avah is “they craved a craving,” the verb and the noun from one root.

Chinnam is for nothing, at no cost. Chatsir here is the leek, not the grass the word names in other sentences.

Nefesh here is the throat, the appetite. Man is the bread named in Exodus. It is not the word for a person. A later ending, “manna,” is not added.

Gad is coriander, as in Exodus. Bedolach is bdellium, the same word as in Genesis 2:12. The substance is not identified past that name.

Leshad ha-shamen is an uncertain food. “A cake made with oil” is printed. “Cream of oil” is the other live reading. No modern dish is named.

Omen is the person who carries the nursing child. It is not the mother. Yoneq is the nursing child.

The Hebrew addresses Yahweh with at, the feminine “you.” The written word is printed. A masculine “you” is not substituted.

Chodesh yamim is a month of days. Zara is something loathsome, something spit out. Ma’astem is you rejected.

Elef is a thousand. Six hundred thousand is the number as written. It is not read as a military unit.

Velo yasafu is “and they did not do it again.” “And they did not stop” is the other reading of these consonants, and it is not printed.

Bakketuvim is “among the ones written down,” the men whose names were enrolled.

Bechurav can be his young men or his chosen men. “Chosen men” is printed. Kela’em is restrain them.

Ruach here is a wind. Salav is the quail. The two cubits are the measure as written. They are not converted.

Chomer is a homer, the large dry measure. Ten homers is the number as written. It is not converted.

Terem yikkaret is “before it was cut off.” The meat was not yet finished. A smoother “before it was chewed” is not printed.

Qivrot ha-ta’avah is Graves of the Craving. The name is translated because the verse gives its sense.

Chatzerot, Hazeroth, is the place name. The same word can mean settlements. Here it is the place.