¹ sn The tribes descended from Jacob’s maidservants are placed farthest from the sanctuary. See Gen 30.

¹ tn Heb “the descendants of Ephraim.” However, Ephraim here stands (as it often does) for all the northern tribes of Israel.

³ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

³ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

¹ tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”

¹ tn Heb “I have assigned by lots to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes.”

¹ tn Heb “and the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon by their clans.”

¹ tn Heb “there were left among the sons of Israel who had not divided up their inheritance seven tribes.”

¹ tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”

¹ tn Heb “Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotted portions.”

³ tn Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”

² tn Heb “godly man.” The reference is probably to Moses as representative of the whole tribe of Levi.

¹ tn The word “tribes” has been supplied here and in the following verse in the translation for clarity.

² tn The ban applied to the encampments and forts of this group of Midianite tribes living in the region of Moab.

³ sn The name Sheleph may be related to Shilph, a district of Yemen; Shalph is a Yemenite tribe.

⁵ sn Aram became the collective name of the northern tribes living in the steppes of Mesopotamia and speaking Aramaic dialects.

³ tn Grk “to the twelve tribes in the Diaspora.” The Greek term διασπορά (diaspora, “dispersion”) refers to Jews not living in Palestine but “dispersed” or scattered among the Gentiles.

¹ tn Grk “to which [promise] our twelve tribes…” The antecedent of the relative pronoun (the promise in v. 6) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ sn The tribe from which the Davidic prince would come is given the most prestigious allotment (see Gen 49:8-12).

¹ sn Pekod was the name of an Aramean tribe (known as Puqudu in Mesopotamian texts) that lived in the region of the Tigris River.