² tn Heb “or from the remainder of his flesh from his family.”

² tn Heb “circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin” (also in v. 25).

⁴ tn Heb “and all flesh will not be cut off again by the waters of the flood.”

¹ tn Heb “Those that went in, male and female from all flesh they went in.”

⁴ tn Or “in their earthly lives,” since “flesh” here denotes the physical, earthly life. The phrase “in the flesh” is retained to preserve the links with 3:18 and 4:1 which use the same wording.

² tn Grk “the fathers of our flesh.” In Hebrews, “flesh” is a characteristic way of speaking about outward, physical, earthly life (cf. Heb 5:7; 9:10, 13), as opposed to the inward or spiritual dimensions of life.

¹ tn Grk “for the purifying of the flesh.” The “flesh” here is symbolic of outward or ritual purity in contrast to inner purity, that of the conscience (cf. Heb 9:9).

¹ tn Heb “your neighbors, large of flesh.” The word “flesh” is used here of the genitals. It may simply refer to the size of their genitals in general, or that they are lustful.

¹ tn Heb “And the one who touches in the flesh.” In this instance, “flesh” (or “body”) probably refers literally to any part of the body, not the genitals specifically (see the discussion in J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:914).

¹ tn Grk “according to the flesh”; see the note on the phrase “by natural descent” in 4:23.

³ tn Some take the referent of “flesh” to be more specific here; cf. NEB (“bowels”), NAB (“brains”), NIV (“entrails”).

¹ tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “upon all men”; TEV “all the people of the world.”

² tn Heb “is the life of the flesh” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, NIV “gives life to the body.”

² tn Heb “and my flesh is lean away from fatness [i.e., “lean so as not to be fat”].”

¹ tn The statement is similar to that of v. 4, except “flesh” is used there instead of “man.”

¹ tn The Hebrew text simply has “from where to me flesh?” which means “from where will I have meat?”

² tn Heb “of all flesh” (also later in this verse). See the note on “every living thing” in v. 11.

⁵ tn Heb “in the skin of his flesh” as opposed to the head or the beard (v. 29).

¹ tn Heb “but the remainder in the flesh and in the bread”; NAB, CEV “what is left over”; NRSV “what remains.”

² tn Heb “circumcised the flesh of their foreskin.” The Hebrew expression is somewhat pleonastic and has been simplified in the translation.