Rico Cortes

Torah Portion Korah The Encroacher and the Clergy The key word to the understanding of Numbers 3 is karev, which should be rendered not as “approach” but, in prohibitive contexts, as “encroach” and, in permissive contexts, as “qualify” (Num. 3:6; 18:2; Jer. 30:21; Ezek. 42:13; 44:16). So karev means “qualify” at Qumran (e.g., IQS 6:16–19,