¹ tn Or “stream.”

⁴ tn Or “seasonal streams.”

² tc The Hebrew reads, “their streams”; the LXX reads, “your streams.”

¹ tn Heb “like the streams in the Negev.”

³ tn That is, “the dry stream bed.”

¹ tn Heb “rivers” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, CEV “streams”; TEV “channels.”

¹ tn Heb “[with] flowing streams my eyes go down.”

⁵ tn Or “branches”; Heb “heads.” Cf. NEB “streams”; NASB “rivers.”

¹ tn Heb “[the] one who sends springs into streams.” Another option is to translate, “he sends streams [i.e., streams that originate from springs] into the valleys” (cf. NIV).

¹ tn The word translated “streams” here refers to the streams of the Nile (cf. Exod 7:19 and 8:1 for parallel usage).

² tn Heb “a place of rivers, streams wide of hands [i.e., on both sides].”

³ tn Heb “it will go up over all its stream beds and go over all its banks.”

³ tn “Channels of water” (פַּלְגֵי, palge) is an adverbial accusative, functioning as a figure of comparison—“like channels of water.” Cf. NAB “Like a stream”; NIV “watercourse”; NRSV, NLT “a stream of water.”

³ tn Heb “[with] a channel of God full of water.” The divine name is probably may be used here in a superlative sense to depict a very deep stream (“a stream fit for God,” as it were).

¹ tn The combination “a wadi with flowing water” is necessary because a wadi (נַחַל, nakhal) was ordinarily a dry stream or riverbed. For this ritual, however, a perennial stream must be chosen so that there would be fresh, rushing water.

⁶ tn Heb “seven streams.” The Hebrew term נַחַל (nakhal, “stream”) refers to a wadi, or seasonal stream, which runs during the rainy season, but is otherwise dry. The context (see v. 15b) here favors the translation, “dried-up streams.” The number seven suggests totality and completeness. Here it indicates that God’s provision for escape will be thorough and more than capable of accommodating the returning exiles.

² sn The unworked heifer, fresh stream, and uncultivated valley speak of ritual purity—of freedom from human contamination.

² tn Heb “in the water, in the seas and in the streams” (see also vv. 10 and 12).

³ tn The disjunctive clause draws attention to an important fact: He may have crossed the stream, but he was limping.

¹ tn Heb “living.” This expression refers to a well supplied by subterranean streams (see Song 4:15).