JUDGMENTS — from shaphat, 'to judge,' and here specifically the fixed phrase asah shephatim, 'to EXECUTE judgments,' used of a decisive, punitive act rather than a courtroom verdict. Exodus 12:12 (already on these pages) has Jehovah say, on the night of the tenth plague, 'against all the gods of Egypt I WILL execute judgments' (e'eseh shephatim, future tense); Numbers 33:4 reports the same two Hebrew words in the perfect — 'upon their gods Jehovah executed judgments' (asah shephatim) — forty years later, in the itinerary's own opening line. Searched consonantally, this exact collocation, Egypt's gods paired with this verb, occurs in exactly these two verses and nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible: a promise made in the future tense, collected in the perfect. → first discussed at Exod 12:12