¹ tn Heb “earth,” but here the term refers to the dry ground as opposed to the sea.

² tn Grk “the wadi of the Kidron,” or “the ravine of the Kidron” (a wadi is a stream that flows only during the rainy season and is dry during the dry season).

³ tn Grk “and its water was dried up.” Here the passive construction has been translated as an active one.

¹ sn The homer was about 5 bushels as a dry measure and 55 gallons as a liquid measure.

² sn The analogy is that they received his words eagerly as the dry ground opens to receive the rains.

³ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

² sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.

¹ tn Heb “and the soles of the feet of the priests were brought up to the dry land.”

¹ tn Heb “and all Israel was crossing over on dry ground until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”

² tn When the waters are collected to one place, dry land emerges above the surface of the receding water.

⁴ sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.

² sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.

¹ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made…?”

² tn Heb “women come [and] light it.” The city is likened to a dead tree with dried-up branches that is only good for firewood.

³ tn Heb “a homer.” A homer was a dry measure, the exact size of which is debated. Cf. NCV “ten bushels”; CEV “five bushels.”

¹ sn He turned the sea into dry land. The psalmist alludes to Israel’s crossing the Red Sea (Exod 14:21).

¹ tn Or “dryness.” The term צִיָּה (tsiyyah) normally refers to a dry region, a wilderness or desert. Here the focus is on dryness.

² tn Heb “his nurse,” but this refers to a dry nurse, not a medical attendant. Cf. NIV “and cared for him”; TEV “and took (+ good CEV) care of him.”

¹ tn Heb “just as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea when he dried [it] up before us while we crossed over.”