Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Eze 36:27) | 3 tn Heb “and my laws you will guard and you will do them.” Jer 31:31-34 is parallel to this passage. |
| (0.35) | (Eze 22:12) | 1 tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36. |
| (0.35) | (Eze 5:6) | 2 tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.” |
| (0.35) | (Eze 5:6) | 1 sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3 and Jonah 1:2. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 34:14) | 1 sn Cf. Deut 15:12-18 for the complete statement of this law. Here only the first part of it is cited. |
| (0.35) | (Pro 13:6) | 1 sn Righteousness refers to that which conforms to law and order. One who behaves with integrity will be safe from consequences of sin. |
| (0.35) | (Psa 119:130) | 1 tn Heb “the doorway of your words gives light.” God’s “words” refer here to the instructions in his law (see vv. 9, 57). |
| (0.35) | (Psa 93:5) | 1 tn Traditionally “your testimonies.” The Hebrew noun עֵדוּת (ʿedut) refers here to the demands of God’s covenant law. See Ps 19:7. |
| (0.35) | (Psa 37:31) | 1 tn Heb “the law of his God [is] in his heart.” The “heart” is here the seat of one’s thoughts and motives. |
| (0.35) | (Psa 19:10) | 2 tn Heb “are sweeter.” God’s law is “sweet’ in the sense that, when obeyed, it brings a great reward (see v. 11b). |
| (0.35) | (Psa 19:7) | 2 tn Traditionally, “the testimony of the Lord.” The noun עֵדוּת (ʿedut) refers here to the demands of God’s covenant law. |
| (0.35) | (Job 36:22) | 1 tn The word מוֹרֶה (moreh) is the Hiphil participle from יָרַה (yarah). It is related to the noun תּוֹרָה (torah, “what is taught” i.e., the law). |
| (0.35) | (2Ki 10:31) | 1 tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart.” |
| (0.35) | (Rut 1:22) | 1 tn Heb “and Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, the one who returned from the region of Moab.” |
| (0.35) | (Jos 22:5) | 1 tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.” |
| (0.35) | (Jos 8:32) | 1 tn Heb “and he wrote there on the stones a duplicate of the law of Moses which he wrote before the sons of Israel.” |
| (0.35) | (Jos 1:8) | 1 sn This law scroll must not leave your lips. The ancient practice of reading aloud to oneself as an aid to memorization is in view here. |
| (0.35) | (Num 30:2) | 1 tn The legal construction states the class to which the law applies, and then lays down the condition: “men [man]—if….” |
| (0.35) | (Num 15:38) | 3 sn The blue color may represent the heavenly origin of the Law, or perhaps, since it is a royal color, the majesty of the Lord. |
| (0.35) | (Num 15:14) | 4 tn The imperfect tenses must reflect the responsibility to comply with the law, and so the classifications of instruction or obligation may be applied. |
