While I was watching,
there was a tree in the middle of the land. 3
It was enormously tall. 4
1 tn Aram “and it.”
2 tc The LXX lacks the first two words (Aram “the visions of my head”) of the Aramaic text.
3 tn Instead of “in the middle of the land,” some English versions render this phrase “a tree at the center of the earth” (NRSV); NAB, CEV “of the world”; NLT “in the middle of the earth.” The Hebrew phrase can have either meaning.
4 tn Aram “its height was great.”