¹ tn Grk “But to remain in the flesh is more necessary for you.”

³ tn See the note on the previous occurrence of the word “flesh” in this verse.

² tn See the note on the word “flesh” in Gal 5:13.

¹ tn See the note on the word “flesh” in Gal 5:13.

¹ tn Grk “your trial in my flesh you did not despise or reject.”

² tn Grk “fleshly [people]”; the Greek term here is σαρκινός (BDAG 914 s.v. 1).

² sn The expression the children of the flesh refers to the natural offspring.

¹ tn Or “are not controlled by the flesh but by the Spirit.”

² tn Heb “all flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NAB, NASB, NIV “all mankind”; NLT “All humanity.”

² tn Heb “ones who eat the flesh of the pig and the disgusting thing and the mouse.”

³ tn Heb “all flesh is grass.” The point of the metaphor is explained in v. 7.

² tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NAB, NIV “mankind”; TEV “the whole human race.”

³ tn Heb “and the fatness of his flesh will be made lean.”

³ tn Heb “my flesh,” which stands for his whole person and being.

² tn Heb “and he remembered that they [were] flesh, a wind [that] goes and does not return.”

² tn Heb “there is no soundness in my flesh” (see v. 3).

⁴ tn Heb “rain down upon him, on his flesh.” Dhorme changes עָלֵימוֹ (ʿalemo, “upon him”) to “his arrows”; he translates the line as “he rains his arrows upon his flesh.” The word בִּלְחוּמוֹ (bilkhumo, “his flesh”) has been given a wide variety of translations: “as his food,” “on his flesh,” “upon him, his anger,” or “missiles or weapons of war.”

³ tn Human life is made of “flesh” and “spirit.” So here the line reads “and the spirit of all flesh of man.” If the text had simply said “all flesh,” that would have applied to all flesh in which there is the breath of life (see Gen 6:17; 7:15). But to limit this to human beings requires the qualification with “man.”

² tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”

¹ tn Heb “flesh”; cf. NAB “all mankind”; NCV “all people”; NIV, NLT “all living things.”