³ tn Grk “and gird yourself” (with an apron or towel, in preparation for service).

² tn Or “set up” (ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); KJV, NASB “to prepare.”

¹ tn Heb “and for him he has prepared the weapons of death.”

¹ tn Heb “open the eye on,” an idiom meaning to prepare to judge someone.

² tn Heb “so we can prepare before you a young goat of the goats.”

¹ tn Heb “prepared things,” “impending things.” See BDB 800 s.v. עָתִיד.

¹ tn The translation has “regular” instead of “continually,” because they will be preparing this twice a day.

⁵ tn The form is the Hiphil perfect of the verb כּוּן (kun, “to establish, prepare”).

¹ tn The form is a Niphal participle that means “be prepared, be ready.” This probably means that Moses was to do in preparation what the congregation had to do back in Exod 19:11-15.

² tn Or “myrrh,” a strong aromatic ointment often used to prepare a body for burial (L&N 6.205).

⁴ tn Grk “in order that the way might be prepared.” Here the passive construction has been translated as an active one.

¹ tn Grk “having purified,” as the preparation for the love described in the second half of the verse.

⁵ sn On the phrase prepare his ways see Isa 40:3-5 and Luke 3:1-6.

¹ sn This call to “make his paths straight” in this context is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance.

³ sn The call to “make paths straight” in this context is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance.

³ tn Heb “but [as for the one] who does not place [food] in their mouths, they prepare for war against him.”

² tn Heb “and he refused to take from his flock and from his herd to prepare [a meal] for.”

² tn The “vinegar” (חֹמֶץ, homets) is some kind of drink preparation that has been allowed to go sour.

³ tn The verb is עָשׂוּ (ʿasu, “they made”); here, with a potential nuance, it is rendered “they could [not] prepare.”

² tn The action precedes the action of preparing the gift, and so must be translated as past perfect.