³ tn Or “plead my case” (NASB and NIV both similar); NRSV “until he takes my side.”

² tn Heb “a place of rivers, streams wide of hands [i.e., on both sides].”

¹ tn Heb “this [is] the sea, great and broad of hands [i.e., “sides” or “shores”].”

¹ tn The verse gives the other side of the coin now, the fact that the wicked prosper.

² sn The land of Gilead was on the eastern side of the Jordan River.

³ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

² sn This was the larger bowl used in tossing the blood at the side of the altar.

² tn These clauses are a good example of the contrastive μὲν…δέ (men…de) construction: Some “on the one hand” sided with the Jews, but some “on the other hand” sided with the apostles.

³ tn Less probable renderings of this line are “God hath made the one side by side with the other” (ASV) and “God has set the one alongside the other” (NEB).

³ sn In contrast to the foothills on the western side of the hill country, the slopes are on the eastern side leading down to the rift valley of the Dead Sea and Jordan river.

¹ tn Heb “and these went out from the city to meet them and they were for Israel in the middle, some on this side, and others on the other side.”

² tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”

¹ tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”

¹ sn Apparently the people of Gilead remained on the other side of the river and did not participate in the battle.

³ tn Heb “the border on the northern side was from the tongue of the sea, from the end of the Jordan.”

¹ sn Each man was to pass in front of the counting officer and join those already counted on the other side.

³ tn Traditionally translated “rib,” the Hebrew word actually means “side.” The Hebrew text reads, “and he took one from his sides,” which could be rendered “part of his sides.” That idea may fit better the explanation by the man that the woman is his flesh and bone.

² tn Heb “on the other side of the Jordan.” This would appear to favor authorship by someone living on the west side of the Jordan, that is, in Canaan, whereas the biblical tradition locates Moses on the east side (cf. v. 5). However the Hebrew phrase בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן (b^eʿever hayyarden) is a frozen form meaning “Transjordan,” a name appropriate from any geographical vantage point. To this day, one standing east of the Jordan can describe himself as being in Transjordan.

¹ sn Correcting is the word for “child-training” or “discipline.” It is often positive (training, educating) but here denotes the negative side (correcting, disciplining).

² sn The expression left it behind on our port side here means “sailed past to the south of it” since the ship was sailing east.