¹ tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”

² tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

³ tn Heb “Only you keep [away] from what is set apart [to the Lord] so that you might not, as you are setting [it] apart, take some of what is set apart [to the Lord] and make the camp of Israel set apart [to destruction by the Lord] and bring trouble on it.”

⁴ tn Heb “turned [the] back.”

⁵ sn Israel’s God is here identified with three names: (1) אֵל (’el), “El” (or “God”); (2) אֱלֹהִים (’elohim), “Elohim” (or “God”), and (3) יְהוָה (yÿhvah), “Yahweh” (or “the Lord”). The name אֵל (’el, “El”) is often compounded with titles, for example, El Elyon, “God Most High.”

⁶ tn Heb “he knows.”

⁷ tn Heb “if in rebellion or if in unfaithfulness against the Lord.”

⁸ tn Heb “do not save us.” The verb form is singular, being addressed to either collective Israel or the Lord himself. The LXX translates in the third person.

⁹ tn Heb “by building.” The prepositional phrase may be subordinated to what precedes, “if in unfaithfulness…by building.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “or if to offer up.”

¹¹ tn Heb “or if to make.”

¹² tn Or “peace offerings.”

¹³ tn Heb “the Lord, he will seek.” Perhaps this is a self-imprecation in an oath, “may the Lord himself punish us.”

¹⁴ tn Or “when.”

¹⁵ tn Or “and serve.”

¹⁶ tn The words “against you” are added for clarification.

¹⁷ tn Heb “bring you to an end.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “after he did good for you.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “all the words of the Lord which he spoke with us.”

²⁰ tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”