(0.70) | (Exo 12:15) | 2 tn Or “you will eat.” The statement stresses their obligation—they must eat unleavened bread and avoid all leaven. |
(0.70) | (Exo 5:23) | 3 tn Heb “your people.” The pronoun (“them”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons here, to avoid redundancy. |
(0.60) | (1Ti 6:20) | 1 tn Grk “avoiding.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. |
(0.60) | (Col 2:19) | 1 tn The Greek participle κρατῶν (kratōn) was translated as a finite verb to avoid an unusually long and pedantic sentence structure in English. |
(0.60) | (Act 15:2) | 2 tn Grk “they”; the referent (the church, or the rest of the believers at Antioch) has been specified to avoid confusion with the Judaizers mentioned in the preceding clause. |
(0.60) | (Joh 11:31) | 3 tn Grk “Mary”; the proper name (Mary) has been replaced with the pronoun (her) in keeping with conventional English style, to avoid repetition. |
(0.60) | (Luk 2:25) | 3 tn Grk “This man was righteous.” The Greek text begins a new sentence here, but this was changed to a relative clause in the translation to avoid redundancy. |
(0.60) | (Mat 10:11) | 4 tn Grk “there.” This was translated as “with them” to avoid redundancy in English and to clarify where the disciples were to stay. |
(0.60) | (Jon 4:5) | 2 tn Heb “of the city.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, the noun “city” has been replaced here by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation. |
(0.60) | (Hos 1:2) | 4 tn Heb “to Hosea.” The proper name is replaced by the pronoun here to avoid redundancy in English (cf. NIV, NCV, NLT). |
(0.60) | (Jer 34:13) | 1 tn Heb “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘…’” The style adopted here has been used to avoid a longer, more complex English sentence. |
(0.60) | (Jer 26:4) | 1 tn Heb “thus says the Lord, ‘…’.” The use of the indirect quotation in the translation eliminates one level of embedded quotation to avoid confusion. |
(0.60) | (Jer 25:27) | 3 tn Heb “Tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord….’” The translation is intended to eliminate one level of imbedded quotation marks to help avoid confusion. |
(0.60) | (Jer 25:28) | 1 tn Heb “Tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord…’” The translation is intended to eliminate one level of imbedded quote marks to help avoid confusion. |
(0.60) | (Jer 16:14) | 2 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.” The Lord has been speaking; the first person has been utilized in translation to avoid a shift that might create confusion. |
(0.60) | (Jer 16:16) | 1 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.” The Lord has been speaking; the first person has been utilized in translation to avoid a shift that might create confusion. |
(0.60) | (Pro 27:11) | 1 tn Heb “my son”; the reference to a “son” is retained in the translation here because in the following lines the advice is to avoid women who are prostitutes. |
(0.60) | (Pro 23:26) | 1 tn Heb “my son”; the reference to a “son” is retained in the translation here because in the following lines the advice is to avoid women who are prostitutes. |
(0.60) | (Pro 19:25) | 3 sn The word is related to “shrewdness” (cf. 1:4). The simpleton will learn at least where the traps are and how to avoid them. |
(0.60) | (Pro 13:18) | 1 tn The verb III פָּרַע (paraʿ) normally means “to let go; to let alone” and here “to neglect; to avoid; to reject” (BDB 828 s.v.). |