1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the warden mentioned in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “listened to them with regard to this matter.”
3 sn The number ten is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number of completeness. Cf. v. 20; Zech 8:23; Rev 2:10.
4 tn Heb “three weeks of days.” The inclusion of “days” here and in v. 3 is perhaps intended to call attention to the fact that these weeks are very different in nature from those of chap. 9, which are “weeks of years.”
