¹ tn Heb “[with] a curse his mouth is full, and lies and injury.”

¹ tn Heb “in peace at the same time I will lie down and sleep.”

¹ tn Heb “lie with me” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV); NCV “come and have sexual relations with me.”

⁴ tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lie.”

¹ tn Heb, “when your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors.”

² tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting in the bedroom.”

⁴ sn The slopes of Pisgah lie east of the northern tip of the Dead Sea.

² tn Heb “lies down with,” a euphemism for going to bed for sexual relations.

¹ tn Heb “And a man when he lies with her, the lying of seed.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakhav) “to lie down” acts as a euphemism, implying going to bed for sexual relations. In this case, the phrase “lying for (a man’s) seed” specifies that it refers to sexual intercourse.

⁵ tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”

¹ tn Heb “And a man when he lies with a woman, the lying of seed.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakav) “to lie down” acts as a euphemism, implying going to bed for sexual relations. In this case, the phrase “lying for (a man’s) seed” specifies that it refers to sexual intercourse.

¹ tn Heb “and who a lying down of seed goes out from him.”

¹ tn Heb “And a woman whom a man lies down with her, a lying of seed.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakhav) “to lie down” can imply going to bed for sexual relations. The phrase “a lying down of seed” or “an emission of seed” is adverbial, specifying the circumstance with which the regulation is concerned.

² tn Heb “and if a man indeed lies with her and her menstrual impurity is on him.”

³ tn Heb “lie down with her to be with her.” See note at v. 7.

² tn Heb “to lie with.” The phrase is a euphemism for sexual relations.

² tn Or “the city lies square.” On κεῖμαι (keimai) in this context, BDAG 537 s.v. 2 states, “lie, of things…ἡ πόλις τετράγωνος κεῖται is laid out as a square Rv 21:16.”

¹ tn Heb “lies down with any animal.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakhav) “to lie down” can be a euphemism for going to bed for sexual relations, the perversion in this case being bestiality.

⁶ tn Heb “by lying with the daughter of Jacob.” The infinitive here explains the preceding verb, indicating exactly how he had disgraced Jacob. The expression “to lie with” is a euphemism for sexual relations, or in this case, sexual assault.

³ tn Grk “are lying in wait for him” (BDAG 334 s.v. ἐνεδρεύω); see also v. 16.