Footnotes

1. Numbers 4:27 tn The term “whether” is supplied to introduce the enumerated parts of the explanatory phrase.
2. Numbers 4:27 tn Here again is the use of the noun “burden” in the sense of the loads they were to carry (see the use of carts in Num 7:7).
3. Numbers 4:27 tn The expression is literally “upon/at the mouth of” (עַל־פִּי, ʿal pi); it means that the work of these men would be under the direct orders of Aaron and his sons.
4. Numbers 4:27 tn Or “burden.”