The language of Bəmidbar 35:5 is tediously bureaucratic; so is the language of many horrors. Here is the requisition form for the ammunition duly authorized by the officer in charge of armory stock. Here is the medical report tabulating the cause of death of unnamed masses, compared against standard actuarial tables. Here is the accounting department’s audit of the tax withholdings from the concentration camp guards’ salaries. A mind-numbing document can still be a record of wild cruelty and unabashed evil.