Cross-Reference Analysis
Numbers — Cross-Reference and Theme Analysis (Hmong Language Package)
0. Citation Convention Note
The Romans baseline (12_ai_translation_requirements.md §7) established Loos as the Hmong citation name for Romans (Loos [chapter]:[verse]). No equivalent citation name for Numbers exists yet in this pipeline’s governing documents. Consistent with existing Hmong Bible tradition (which titles this book after its opening census theme, echoing the LXX title Ἀριθμοί/Arithmoi, “Numbers”), this analysis proposes:
- Destination-language book name for Numbers:
Naj Npawb(lit. “numbers/count”), citation formatNaj Npawb [chapter]:[verse], e.g.Naj Npawb 21:9. - This proposal is logged as
[TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED: confirm Hmong book-title convention for Numbers against the specific published Hmong Bible edition this curriculum's register anchors to], following the same TM-revision-pending pattern already applied to Yawmsaub in07_semantic_analysis.md. - All English-language citations in this document itself follow the normalizable
BookName chapter:verseconvention (e.g.Numbers 21:9,Romans 8:1,Genesis 15:6) so that this file can be mechanically cross-indexed regardless of destination-language citation display formatting.
1. Chapter-by-Chapter Cross-Reference Matrix
Every chapter of Numbers is represented. Chapters with multiple distinct cross-reference clusters are split into sub-rows (e.g. 14a/14b, 21a-g). “Sensitivity” reuses the Critical/High/Medium/Low tiering from assets/bible_term_registry.json’s risk_tier_definitions.
| Passage | Theme(s) | Related Character(s) | OT Connection | NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers 1 | Census and the People of God | Moses, Aaron | Genesis 15:5; Exodus 12:37 | Revelation 7:4-8; Acts 1:15 | Low — kev suav pej xeem stable; teach as covenant-identity, not bare headcount. |
| Numbers 2 | Census and the People of God | Tribal leaders | Exodus 25:8-27:19 (tabernacle-centered order) | Ephesians 2:19-22 | Low — lub chij (camp standard) kept lexically distinct from ch.21’s tus ncej (serpent pole). |
| Numbers 3 | Faithfulness of Promises; Census | Aaron, Levites | Exodus 13:2, 12-13 | Luke 2:22-23; Hebrews 12:23 | Medium — reuses inherited kev txhiv (redemption); must anchor to price-payer per Romans baseline note. |
| Numbers 4 | Census and the People of God | Kohathites, Gershonites, Merarites | Exodus 25:1-27:19 | Hebrews 9:1-5 | Low. |
| Numbers 5 | God’s Patience and Judgment | Priest, accused wife | Leviticus 5:1-6:7 (guilt offering); jealousy-ordeal is unique to this text | No direct NT citation; conceptual echo Hebrews 10:1-4 | Medium-High — jealousy ordeal parallels Hmong customary oath/ordeal dispute-resolution; must be fenced as a unique, temporary Mosaic-covenant civil provision. |
| Numbers 6 | Faithfulness of Promises | Aaron and sons | — (institutes new provisions) | Judges 13:2-7 (backward parallel, OT); Luke 1:15; Acts 18:18; Acts 21:23-24; 2 Corinthians 13:14 (benediction-form echo) | Medium-High — foom koob hmoov rau permitted under baseline’s ordinary-blessing carve-out; must not be heard as impersonal fate. |
| Numbers 7 | Census and the People of God | Tribal leaders | Exodus 40:17 | Hebrews 9:6-10 | Low. |
| Numbers 8 | (cross-cutting; Sanctification, Romans-inherited doctrine) | Aaron | Exodus 25:31-40 (lampstand) | Revelation 1:12-20; John 8:12 | Low-Medium. |
| Numbers 9 | Faithfulness of Promises | Whole congregation | Exodus 12 (Passover); Exodus 13:21-22 (cloud/fire) | 1 Corinthians 5:7; 1 Corinthians 10:1-2; John 1:14 | Low-Medium — cloud/fire is assurance imagery; pairs well with Romans 8:31-39’s “nothing can separate” theme. |
| Numbers 10 | Census and the People of God | Moses | — | 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16 (eschatological trumpet typology) | Low. |
| Numbers 11 | Unbelief and the Wilderness Generation; God’s Patience and Judgment | Moses; seventy elders | Exodus 16 (manna instituted); Exodus 24:1-11 (seventy elders precedent) | John 6:31-33, 49-51; 1 Corinthians 10:3; Acts 2:1-4, 17-18 (quoting Joel 2:28) | High — Vaj Ntsuj Plig fixed collocation mandatory; direct rendering-consistency requirement with Romans 8:9-16 (see §3). |
| Numbers 12 | Intercession | Moses, Miriam, Aaron | Exodus 4:6 (leprosy sign) | Matthew 11:29; Philippians 2:3-8; James 4:6 | Low-Medium. |
| Numbers 13 | Unbelief and the Wilderness Generation | Joshua, Caleb, ten spies | Genesis 15:18-21 (land promise) | Hebrews 3:19; Hebrews 4:2, 6, 11 (direct NT commentary on this event) | Critical — tsis ntseeg must anchor to distrust of God’s specific promise; direct antithetical parallel to Romans 4:20-21 (Abraham’s faith). |
| Numbers 14:11-19 | Intercession; God’s Patience and Judgment | Moses | Exodus 32:9-14 (golden-calf intercession pattern); Exodus 34:6-7 (quoted almost verbatim in Numbers 14:18) | Romans 9:15 (quotes the parallel Exodus 33:19 mercy-formula) | High — intercession vocabulary must be object-anchored to Yawmsaub, never shamanic-mediation phrasing. |
| Numbers 14:20-35 | Unbelief and the Wilderness Generation; God’s Patience and Judgment | The unbelieving generation | (generates later Psalm 95 reference) | Psalm 95:8-11 (poetic retelling) quoted directly in Hebrews 3:7-11, 3:15, 4:3, 4:5, 4:7 | Critical — judicial-oath vocabulary (Yawmsaub twv tseg tias) distinct from ordinary promise; parallels Romans 11:20-22’s warning against arrogance. |
| Numbers 15 | God’s Patience and Judgment | General Israel | Leviticus 4:1-5:13 | Hebrews 10:26-29 (deliberate sin, no further sacrifice — direct conceptual parallel); Matthew 23:5 (tassels) | High — the ignorance/presumption (bi-shegagah/be-yad ramah) distinction must be preserved; parallels Romans 1:18-32 vs. Romans 2:4-5. |
| Numbers 16:1-40 | Intercession; God’s Patience and Judgment | Korah; Aaron | Exodus 6:16-25 (Levite lineage) | Jude 11 (direct named citation: “Korah’s rebellion”); 2 Timothy 2:19 (alludes to Numbers 16:5) | High — incense (hmoov tshuaj hlawv tsw qab) must remain God-directed only. |
| Numbers 16:41-50 | Intercession | Aaron | — | Typological anticipation of Hebrews 7:25 (Christ’s continual intercession) | High. |
| Numbers 17 | Intercession | Aaron | — | Hebrews 9:4 (direct explicit mention: the budded rod kept in the ark) | Medium — sign-object teaching must exclude shamanic staff-ritual framing. |
| Numbers 18 | Census and the People of God | Aaron, Levites | Leviticus 6:8-7:38 | 1 Corinthians 9:13-14 (same “those who serve the altar” principle) | Low. |
| Numbers 19 | The Bronze Serpent typology cluster (purification) | Eleazar | Leviticus 14 (purification rites) | Hebrews 9:13-14 (direct explicit quotation/contrast: ashes of a heifer vs. blood of Christ) | High — must be taught as surpassed ceremonial type, never an ongoing technique. |
| Numbers 20:1-13 | God’s Patience and Judgment | Moses, Aaron | Exodus 17:1-7 (first rock-water event, same place-names) | 1 Corinthians 10:4 (direct typological identification: “the Rock was Christ”) | Critical — companion Numbers-Christ type alongside the bronze serpent; must be taught explicitly. |
| Numbers 20:14-21 | Faithfulness of Promises | Edomite king | Genesis 25:23; 36:1 (Esau/Edom lineage) | Hebrews 12:16-17 (Esau’s rejection, cautionary parallel) | Low. |
| Numbers 21:1-3 | God’s Patience and Judgment | Israel; Canaanites of Arad | Deuteronomy 7:1-2 (cherem command) | No direct NT citation | Medium-High — cherem teaching must never generalize into personal/clan vengeance license. |
| Numbers 21:4-9 (core passage) | The Bronze Serpent as a Type of Christ; Unbelief; God’s Patience and Judgment; Intercession | Moses; the people | Genesis 15 (implicit covenant backdrop); 2 Kings 18:4 (canonical sequel — Hezekiah destroys the object once it becomes an idol) | John 3:14-15 (direct dominical citation); John 12:32-34 (“lifted up” echo) | Critical — see full verse-by-verse treatment in 07_semantic_analysis.md Part A; parallels Romans 5:12-19, Romans 8:3, 2 Corinthians 5:21 (likeness-of-affliction typology). |
| Numbers 21:16-18 | Faithfulness of Promises | Israel | — | Loose typological echo, John 4:10-14 (not a direct quotation) | Low. |
| Numbers 21:21-35 | Faithfulness of Promises | Sihon, Og | Genesis 15:18-21 (land boundary promise) | Acts 7:45 (loose backward reference to conquest history) | Low. |
| Numbers 22:1-21 | Balaam and God’s Sovereign Blessing | Balaam, Balak | Genesis 12:3 (bless/curse formula directly invoked by the narrative) | 2 Peter 2:15-16; Jude 11; Revelation 2:14 (direct named NT citations) | Critical. |
| Numbers 22:22-35 | Balaam and God’s Sovereign Blessing | Balaam, donkey, angel | — | 2 Peter 2:16 (explicit reference to the speaking donkey) | Low. |
| Numbers 23 | Balaam and God’s Sovereign Blessing; Faithfulness of Promises | Balaam, Balak | Genesis 12:2-3; Genesis 27:29 | Romans 11:29 (irrevocable calling — parallel principle); Romans 8:31-39 (nothing can reverse/separate) | Critical — direct rendering-consistency requirement with Romans’ election vocabulary; see §3. |
| Numbers 24:1-9 | Balaam and God’s Sovereign Blessing | Balaam | Genesis 49:9-10 (Judah’s scepter, adjacent messianic cluster) | — | Medium. |
| Numbers 24:15-19 | Balaam and God’s Sovereign Blessing; Faithfulness of Promises | Balaam | Genesis 49:10 | Matthew 2:1-10 (Magi/star narrative); Revelation 22:16; 2 Peter 1:19; Romans 15:12 (quotes Isaiah 11:10, same messianic-root/branch cluster) | Medium — genuine messianic prophecy; must not be overstated as the Magi’s sole textual source. |
| Numbers 25:1-9 | Balaam and Sovereign Blessing (contrast); God’s Patience and Judgment | Israelite men; Moabite/Midianite women | Exodus 32 (apostasy pattern) | 1 Corinthians 10:8 (direct quotation of the event and death toll); Revelation 2:14 (links Balaam’s teaching to this sin) | Critical. |
| Numbers 25:6-13 | Intercession | Phinehas | — | Psalm 106:30-31 (OT poetic retelling: “and that was counted to him as righteousness”) — cross-references Genesis 15:6 / Romans 4:3, 9, 22 reckoning vocabulary | Critical — see mandatory disambiguation rule §3. |
| Numbers 26 | Census and the People of God; Unbelief | Moses, Eleazar | Numbers 1 (internal) | Hebrews 3:17 (“bodies fell in the wilderness”) | Low-Medium — parallels Romans 9:27 (remnant, quoting Isaiah 10:22-23). |
| Numbers 27:1-11 | Census and the People of God | Zelophehad’s daughters | — | — | Low. |
| Numbers 27:12-23 | Intercession (succession) | Moses, Joshua, Eleazar | Deuteronomy 34:9 | 2 Timothy 1:6; Acts 6:6; 1 Timothy 4:14 (laying on of hands) | Medium. |
| Numbers 28-29 | Faithfulness of Promises; Bronze Serpent typology cluster (atonement pattern) | Priests | Leviticus 23 | Hebrews 10:1-4, 11 (direct commentary: repeated sacrifices “can never perfect… take away sins”); Colossians 2:16-17 | Critical (Day of Atonement entry, 29:7-11). |
| Numbers 30 | Faithfulness of Promises | Fathers/husbands, women | Numbers 6 (internal) | Matthew 5:33-37 (Jesus on oaths, thematic) | Medium. |
| Numbers 31 | God’s Patience and Judgment | Moses, Phinehas | Numbers 25 (internal motive) | — | Medium. |
| Numbers 32 | Unbelief and the Wilderness Generation | Reuben, Gad | Numbers 14 (internal) | Galatians 6:7-8 (sowing/reaping principle — thematic echo, not direct quotation) | Low-Medium. |
| Numbers 33 | God’s Patience and Judgment | Moses | Exodus 23:24; 34:13 | Acts 17:29-30 (general idolatry theme, not direct quotation) | High (bamah/high-place collision, see §33 note in 07_semantic_analysis.md). |
| Numbers 34 | Faithfulness of Promises | Eleazar, tribal leaders | Genesis 15:18-21 | Hebrews 11:9-10; Hebrews 13:14 | Medium — parallels Romans 4:13 (“heir of the world,” expanded promise). |
| Numbers 35:1-8 | Census and the People of God | Levites | — (fulfilled in Joshua 21) | — | Low. |
| Numbers 35:9-34 | Faithfulness of Promises; typological (no-condemnation cluster) | Manslayer, avenger of blood | Exodus 21:12-14; Deuteronomy 19:1-13 | Hebrews 6:18 (direct allusion: “we who have fled for refuge”) | Medium-High — direct rendering-consistency requirement with Romans 8:1’s no_condemnation TM term; see §3. |
| Numbers 36 | Census and the People of God; Faithfulness of Promises | Zelophehad’s daughters, tribal leaders | Numbers 27 (internal) | Ephesians 1:11, 14 (inheritance obtained) | Low — parallels Romans 8:17 (heir TM term). |
2. Messianic References and Typology Summary
The following table isolates every explicit or theologically load-bearing typological/messianic thread in Numbers, independent of chapter order, because these threads are the specific content most likely to be quoted across future lesson generation and therefore carry the tightest rendering-consistency requirements.
| Type (Numbers) | Passage | Antitype / NT Fulfillment | Doctrinal Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze serpent lifted on a pole | Numbers 21:8-9 | Christ crucified, John 3:14-15; John 12:32-34 | Core-passage anchor for “The Bronze Serpent as a Type of Christ.” The remedy fashioned in the likeness of the affliction foreshadows 2 Corinthians 5:21 / Romans 8:3. tus nab tooj lag — mandatory Critical-tier handling per 08_core_glossary.md #36. |
| The Rock struck at Meribah | Numbers 20:8-11 (cf. Exodus 17:6) | “The Rock was Christ,” 1 Corinthians 10:4 | Companion type to the bronze serpent; both are Numbers-specific Christophanies explicitly named in the NT. Should be taught together as a matched pair in any lesson connecting Numbers 20-21. |
| Manna from heaven | Numbers 11:6-9 (cf. Exodus 16) | “The true bread from heaven… I am the bread of life,” John 6:31-33, 49-51 | Numbers 21:5’s contemptuous rejection of manna sharpens this typology: Israel’s loathing of the very bread that prefigures Christ is a direct narrative irony worth surfacing in lesson content. |
| Passover lamb / cloud and fire | Numbers 9:1-23 (cf. Exodus 12-13) | “Christ our Passover lamb,” 1 Corinthians 5:7; “the Word… tabernacled among us,” John 1:14 | Reinforces the Faithfulness-of-Promises doctrine: the same guiding presence that led a faithless generation is the same presence John identifies with the incarnate Christ. |
| Aaron’s budding rod | Numbers 17:1-11 | Kept in the ark, Hebrews 9:4; general resurrection-out-of-death typology | No direct christological identification is made in the NT text itself (unlike the serpent/Rock), so this should be taught as authenticating-sign typology, not asserted as a named Christ-type, to avoid overreach. |
| Red heifer ashes | Numbers 19:1-10 | ”How much more will the blood of Christ…”, Hebrews 9:13-14 | Direct NT a fortiori argument; must be taught as a surpassed, once-repeated-but-now-obsolete ceremonial provision, reinforcing the Critical-risk propitiation/Day-of-Atonement teaching already established in the Romans baseline and 08_core_glossary.md #52. |
| Cities of refuge | Numbers 35:9-34 | ”We… have fled for refuge to hold fast to the hope set before us,” Hebrews 6:18 | Reinforces Romans 8:1 no_condemnation; the refuge is judicial provision, not a generic safe-haven metaphor (see baseline note on 08_core_glossary.md #57). |
| Star out of Jacob | Numbers 24:17 | Magi narrative, Matthew 2:1-10; “bright morning star,” Revelation 22:16; 2 Peter 1:19 | Widely received messianic prophecy; connects to Romans 15:12’s citation of Isaiah 11:10 (same “root/branch of Jesse-Jacob” prophetic cluster) — a genuine cross-curriculum thread with the Romans Language Package. |
| Redemption of the firstborn | Numbers 3:44-51; 18:15-16 | Christ presented in the temple, Luke 2:22-23; “firstborn among many brothers,” Romans 8:29 | Positive continuity; literal price-payment substitution pattern anchors the already-inherited kev txhiv (redemption) TM term. |
3. Parallels to the Romans Curriculum: Rendering-Consistency Rules
Because Numbers and Romans share this pipeline’s single Hmong translation memory, every term below must be rendered with the exact TM string already fixed in the Romans baseline whenever Numbers content invokes the same doctrinal concept. This section documents the specific Numbers passages that trigger each shared term, and states the enforceable rule.
| Numbers Trigger Passage(s) | Shared TM Term / Romans Anchor Passage | Rendering-Consistency Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Numbers 23:19-20 (Balaam: “he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it”) | kev xaiv (Vajtswv xaiv raws li nws lub siab nyiam) — Romans 9:11-16; 11:29 | Reuse the exact volitional-clause TM phrase whenever teaching that no ritual curse can reverse God’s sovereign blessing. Never use hmoov-family vocabulary — this is the same PERMANENTLY FORBIDDEN collision already documented in the Romans baseline (§3.1), and Balaam’s narrative is in fact the single most vivid illustration of exactly why that prohibition exists. |
| Numbers 14:18-19 (Moses’ appeal to Exodus 34:6-7) | txiaj ntsim (grace) vs. txoj kev khuv leej (mercy) — Romans 9:15-18 | Keep grace and mercy lexically distinct exactly as the Romans baseline mandates; Moses’ prayer invokes both chesed-family and forbearance-family vocabulary, and any Hmong rendering must not flatten them into one word. |
| Numbers 11:1, 11:33, 14:11-12, 16:41-46, 21:6, 25:3-4 | kev npau taws ntawm Vajtswv (wrath of God) — Romans 1:18; 2:5; 9:22 | Always righteous, judicial wrath; never capricious spirit-anger. Identical string across both curricula, no stylistic variation. |
| Numbers 14:13, 14:17 (Moses appeals to God’s power) | hwjchim, mandatorily qualified Vajtswv hwjchim — Romans 1:16; 9:17 | Never bare hwjchim in either curriculum. |
| Numbers 21:8-9 (look and live) | kev cawm dim / cawm (salvation) — Romans 1:16; 10:9-13 | Anchor explicitly to God’s provided remedy; when teaching the bronze serpent as feeding directly into John 3:14-15 and Romans 10:9-13’s “call upon the name,” use the Romans TM’s mandatory Christ-anchoring convention. |
| Numbers 11:17, 25-29; 24:2; 27:18 | Vaj Ntsuj Plig (Holy Spirit) — Romans 8:9-16 | Fixed collocation mandatory at every occurrence, including the unusual case of the Spirit coming upon Balaam (24:2), a non-Israelite diviner — flag this specific occurrence with a teaching note distinguishing a temporary prophetic empowering from indwelling sonship (Romans 8:9-16), never implying Balaam possessed saving faith. |
| Numbers 25:6-13 / Psalm 106:30-31 (“counted to him as righteousness”) | suav / suav tias (reckon/impute) — Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3, 9, 22 | CRITICAL DISAMBIGUATION RULE. Phinehas’s reckoning is a this-worldly covenant commendation for zealous, decisive action in a specific historical crisis; it is not the same doctrinal category as Abraham’s Genesis 15:6 / Romans 4 forensic justification apart from works. Any lesson drawing this cross-reference must include an explicit teaching note preventing conflation of the two, per the Romans baseline’s Critical-tier reckon_impute entry. This is the single highest-priority disambiguation requirement surfaced in this cross-reference analysis and should be flagged [TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED: Phinehas/Abraham reckoning distinction] in any Phase 2 draft that connects them. |
| Numbers 3:44-51; 18:15-16; 27; 36 | tus qub txeeg qub teg (heir) / kev txhiv (redemption) — Romans 4:13; 8:17, 23 | Reuse exactly; reinforce inheritance-continuity argument shared by both books. |
| Numbers 35:9-34 (cities of refuge) | kev raug txiav txim rau kev puas tsuaj (no condemnation) — Romans 8:1 | Teach cities of refuge as the OT foreshadow of the “no condemnation” reality in Christ; when the parallel is drawn explicitly, reuse Romans’ exact phrase rather than coining a new synonym for “refuge from judgment.” |
| Numbers 25:1-9 (Baal Peor); 33:52 | dab mlom (idol) / pehawm (worship, object-anchored) — Romans 1:23-25 | Identical terms, identical object-anchoring requirement (pehawm Vajtswv, never bare). |
| Numbers 22-24 (Balaam’s divination) | kev ua khawv koob saib yaig (divination) — no direct Romans TM parallel term, but conceptually connects to Romans 1:21-23’s idolatrous exchange-of-truth pattern | NEW term, no TM precedent. Requires formal TM-revision review before permanent use; flag [TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED: divination term] per escalation rules whenever generated content invokes it, consistent with 12_ai_translation_requirements.md §9. |
4. Rendering-Consistency Rules for Specific Shared Quotations
The following verse-clusters are quoted or thematically bridged across both the Old and New Testaments in ways that touch both this Numbers curriculum and the existing Romans Language Package. Any Phase 2 lesson, footnote, or quiz that cites more than one of these anchor points in the same unit must use identical Hmong phrasing for the shared concept across all citations within that unit.
- Exodus 34:6-7 / Numbers 14:18 ↔ Romans 9:15 (quoting Exodus 33:19). Both derive from the same mercy-and-grace revelation-formula complex given to Moses. The grace/mercy lexical distinction (
txiaj ntsimvs.txoj kev khuv leej) must be identical wherever both texts are cited together. - Genesis 15:6 ↔ Psalm 106:31 ↔ Romans 4:3, 9, 22. Reckoning/imputation vocabulary (
suav / suav tias). See the mandatory disambiguation rule in §3 above — this is the most sensitive shared-quotation cluster in the entire Numbers curriculum. - Numbers 24:17 (Balaam’s star oracle) ↔ Isaiah 11:10 (quoted in Romans 15:12) ↔ Genesis 49:10. All three belong to the same messianic root/branch/star prophetic cluster. When cross-referenced together, use identical Hmong messianic-typology framing language (e.g. consistently naming this “a prophecy pointing forward to the Messiah,” not varying between “sign,” “omen,” and “prophecy” across lessons, which would blur the distinction from Balaam’s own forbidden divination practice documented in §3).
- Numbers 14 ↔ Psalm 95:7-11 ↔ Hebrews 3:7-4:13. The hardening/unbelief vocabulary chain. Numbers’ own
tsis ntseeg(unbelief) and the Romans baseline’slub siab tawv(hardening, inherited from Romans 11’s hardening-of-Israel doctrine) must be reused identically whenever a lesson traces this chain forward, since both curricula are describing structurally the same spiritual condition (covenant-privileged people failing to trust/respond to God’s revealed word and power). - 1 Corinthians 10:1-11. This single NT passage narrates Numbers 11 (craving), Numbers 14 (unbelief/testing), Numbers 16 (grumbling against Moses/Aaron), Numbers 21 (serpents), and Numbers 25 (idolatry/immorality) collectively as typological “examples… written down for our instruction.” Any lesson set connecting Numbers narratives to 1 Corinthians 10 must use the TM-fixed renderings for grumbling (
kev ntxeev siab tawm tsam Vajtswv / kev yws ntsuag), idolatry (dab mlom), sexual immorality (kev deev), and testing/tempting God consistently across every lesson in that set — no lesson-by-lesson lexical drift permitted.
5. Escalation Notes Carried Forward
The following items surfaced in this cross-reference analysis require formal action before Phase 2 generation, consistent with 12_ai_translation_requirements.md §9:
- Confirm the Hmong book-title citation convention for Numbers (
Naj Npawb, proposed §0) against the specific Hmong Bible edition this pipeline’s register anchors to. - Confirm
Yawmsaubas the covenant-name rendering (carried forward from07_semantic_analysis.md, reaffirmed here given the tetragrammaton’s dense recurrence across nearly every cross-reference row above). - Route the Phinehas/Abraham reckoning disambiguation (§3, §4.2) for mandatory human theologian review before any lesson content connecting Numbers 25:6-13 to Genesis 15:6 or Romans 4 is published — this is the single most doctrinally sensitive cross-reference in this entire analysis, on par with the Romans baseline’s own Critical-tier
reckon_imputeentry. - Route the divination term (
kev ua khawv koob saib yaig, §3) for TM-revision review before permanent adoption, given its structural parallel to a live, contemporary Hmong shamanic practice.
Governing Note
This document is a Phase 1 cross-reference deliverable extending analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md and analysis/08_core_glossary.md. It reuses every Romans-baseline TM term exactly and proposes no new lexical renderings itself; all NEW terms referenced here were already surfaced and flagged in the prior Phase 1 documents. No content in this file may be treated as production-ready for Phase 2 generation until the escalation items in §5 receive their required review.