¹ tn Grk “took a wife” (an idiom for marrying a woman).

⁶ tn Grk “a wife of the daughters of Aaron.”

² tn Grk “For the seven had her as wife.”

¹ tn Grk “took a wife” (an idiom for marrying a woman).

³ tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”

² tn Heb “Samson visited his wife with a young goat.”

¹ tn Heb “take her as wife”; NRSV “taking her in marriage.”

¹ tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”

¹ tn Heb “took for a wife” (also in vv. 23, 25).

¹ tn Heb “that two sons my wife bore to me.”

¹ tn Heb “Take for me this young woman for a wife.”

¹ tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”

² tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”

³ tn Heb “a wife of contentions”; KJV “a brawling woman”; TEV, CEV “a nagging wife.” The Greek version has no reference to a quarrelsome wife, but instead mentions justice in a common house.

³ tn Or “your young wife”; Heb “in the wife of your youth” (so NIV, NLT, HCSB). The genitive may function as an attributive adjective: “young wife” or “youthful wife.” Or the genitive may be temporal in that it refers to the age in which a man married his wife: “the wife you married in your youth” (cf. NCV, CEV). The temporal genitive is supported by parallel passages with similar constructions in Prov 2:17 and Mal 2:14.

² tn Grk “will save your wife?” The meaning is obviously that the husband would be the human agent in leading his wife to salvation.

¹ tn “Men” is understood; it says “to one from the sons of the tribes of the Israelites for a wife,” or if he has her for a wife.

³ tn The ἵνα (hina) clause was taken as imperatival, i.e., “let the wife respect….”

¹ sn By the wife of Uriah, i.e., Bathsheba (cf. 2 Sam 11:3).

¹ tn Heb “the Lord is a witness between you and [between] the wife of your youth.”