¹ tn God’s “word” refers here to his law (see v. 11).

¹ tn Heb “better to me [is] the law of your mouth than thousands of gold and silver.”

¹ tn The cohortative verbal form expresses the psalmist’s resolve to obey the law.

³ tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).

³ tn Heb “command.” The singular here refers to the law as a whole.

¹ tn Heb “the drinking was according to law; there was no one compelling.”

¹ tn Heb “and his faithful acts according to what is written in the law of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “guard their way by walking in my law as you have walked before me.”

² tn Heb “his father-in-law persuaded him and he again spent the night there.”

¹ tn Heb “a regulation of one”; KJV, ASV “one manner of law”; NASB “one standard.”

¹ tn Heb “This is the law of who in him [is] a diseased infection.”

¹ tn Heb “like the sin offering like the guilt offering, one law to them.”

² tn Although it is possible the term νομικός (nomikos) indicates an expert in Jewish religious law here, according to L&N 33.338 and 56.37 it is more probable that Zenas was a specialist in civil law.

² sn According to the rules (Grk “lawfully, by law”) referring to the rules of competition. In the ancient world these included requirements for training as well as rules for the competition itself.

² sn That is, if Paul still teaches observance of the Mosaic law (preaches circumcision), why is he still being persecuted by his opponents, who insist that Gentile converts to Christianity must observe the Mosaic law?

¹ tn The Greek sentence expresses this contrast more succinctly than is possible in English. Grk “For not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.”

³ tn Or “are all zealous for the law.” BDAG 427 s.v. ζηλωτής 1.a.β has “of thing…τοῦ νόμου an ardent observer of the law Ac 21:20.”

¹ sn After the reading from the law and the prophets. In the 1st century Jewish synagogue, it was customary after the reading of the Torah (law) and prophets for men to give exhortation from the scriptures.

² sn Laws…that cannot be repealed. On the permanence of the laws of Media and Persia see also Esth 8:8 and Dan 6:8, 12, 15.

¹ tn Heb “want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister in law.” In the second instance the pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.