¹ tn Heb “return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense to indicate the repetition of an action.

³ tn The verb is the Hiphil of שׁוּב (shuv), meaning “to cause to return.” He cannot return God’s word to him, for it has been given, and it will be fulfilled.

³ tn The verb would literally be rendered “and returned”; however, the narrative will record other happenings before he arrived in Egypt, so an ingressive nuance fits here—he began to return, or started back.

² sn I will surely return. If Abraham had not yet figured out who this was, this interchange would have made it clear. Otherwise, how would a return visit from this man mean Sarah would have a son?

¹ tn The construction combines a Qal preterite from שׁוּב (shuv) with its infinitive absolute to indicate continuous action. The infinitive absolute from הָלָךְ (halakh) is included for emphasis: “the waters returned…going and returning.”

² sn The return to Jerusalem would have taken a second day, since they were already one day’s journey away.

¹ sn Those who are far away is probably a reference to later groups of returning exiles under Ezra, Nehemiah, and others.

¹ tc The translation reads הַדְרֵת (hadret, “I returned”) rather than the MT הַדְרִי (hadri, “my honor”); cf. Theodotion.

² tn Heb “He did not return His hand from swallowing.” That is, he persisted until it was destroyed.

¹ tn Heb “a boundary you set up, they will not cross, they will not return to cover the earth.”

¹ tn Heb “his harm [i.e., the harm he conceived for others, see v. 14] returns on his head.”

³ tc The Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the reading, “and the residents of.” The marginal reading (Qere) is “and they returned.”

³ tn Heb “each one to your tents, Israel.” The word “return” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn Heb “and she arose, along with her daughters-in-law, and she returned from the region of Moab.”

² tn Heb “and the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went as formerly over their banks.”

³ tn Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.

¹ tn Now the perfect tense with vav consecutive is subordinated to the next clause, “Moses returned the veil….”

² tn The two imperatives form a verbal hendiadys: “pass over and return,” meaning, “go back and forth” throughout the camp.

¹ tn The verb, “and they will return,” is here subordinated to the imperative preceding it, showing the purpose of that act.

⁴ tn Heb “if there is not you returning.” The suffix on the particle becomes the subject of the negated clause.