ALOES — or TENTS, and the two are spelled the same. ⭐ Numbers 24:6 is where it matters, because the line before it (v5) has just used the identical consonantal stem to mean 'your TENTS' in the chapter's most famous sentence. Everywhere else in the Bible the spelling means tents; the one clear exception is a perfume list, Proverbs 7:17, where it is the aromatic aloe imported from the east. ⚠ Almost the whole shelf reads the plant at 24:6 — KJV 'lign aloes', ASV, Geneva, NIV, NVI, RV 1909 «lináloes», RV60 «áloes», NWT 1984 and TNM 1987 — and the Douay-Rheims ALONE, following the Vulgate, reads tents. Each side pays for the other: 'planted' and 'cedars beside waters' want a tree, and the previous line wants tents. A Hebrew reader gets both at once. → first discussed at Num 24:6