³ tn Heb “of Egypt.” The place is put by metonymy for the inhabitants.

⁴ tn Heb “of Egypt.” The place is put by metonymy for the inhabitants.

⁵ tn Heb “if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians [or “of Egypt”] before their eyes.”

² tn Heb “up” (reflecting directions from their point of view—“up” to Canaan; “down” to Egypt).

¹ tn Heb “to all Egypt.” The name of the country is used by metonymy for the inhabitants.

³ tn Heb “and their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh, going to go down to Egypt.”

² tn Heb “And his mother took for him a wife from the land of Egypt.”

⁴ sn The Anamites lived in North Africa, west of Egypt, near Cyrene.

¹ sn The Pathrusites are known in Egyptian as P-to-reshi; they resided in Upper Egypt.

¹ sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.

¹ tn D. I. Block prefers to see the Hebrew word as referring here to a western ally of Egypt or as an alternative spelling for Pathros, that is, Upper Egypt. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:439-40.

¹ tc The MT reads “Sinim” here; the Dead Sea Scrolls read “Syene,” a location in Egypt associated with modern Aswan. A number of recent translations adopt this reading: “Syene” (NAB, NRSV); “Aswan” (NIV); “Egypt” (NLT).

² tn Heb “and Jeroboam lived in Egypt.” The parallel text in 2 Chr 10:2 reads, “and Jeroboam returned from Egypt.” In a purely consonantal text the forms “and he lived” and “and he returned” are identical (וישׁב).

² tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (meʾerets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).

¹ tn Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness in the way when they went out from Egypt.”

⁴ tn Heb “and Joseph was in Egypt” (so ASV). The disjunctive word order in Hebrew draws attention to the fact that Joseph, in contrast to his brothers, did not come to Egypt at the same time as Jacob.

² tn Heb “And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two people; all the people belonging to the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.”

³ sn The Cyrenian refers to a native of the city of Cyrene, on the coast of northern Africa west of Egypt.

¹ tn Heb “I will cause your obscene conduct to cease from you and your harlotry from the land of Egypt.”

² sn Heb “Virgin Daughter of Egypt.” See the study note on Jer 14:17 for the significance of the use of this figure. Here it may compare Egypt’s geographical isolation to the safety and protection enjoyed by a virgin living at home under her father’s protection (so F. B. Huey, Jeremiah, Lamentations [NAC], 379). By her involvement in the politics of Palestine Egypt had forfeited that safety and protection and was now suffering for it.