³ tn Heb “and writing.”

⁸ tn Heb “in writing, saying.”

² tn Aram “he did not write.”

² tn Heb “write” (so KJV, ASV, NIV, NRSV).

² tn Aram “according to the writing of.”

² tn Heb “writes her a document of divorce.”

¹ tn Heb “the Lord records in the writing of the nations.”

² tn Grk “written on the inside and the outside” (an idiom for having writing on both sides).

² tn Grk “What things I am writing to you, behold, before God [that] I am not lying.”

¹ tn Grk “writing by their hand” (an idiom for sending a letter).

² sn The writing tablet requested by Zechariah would have been a wax tablet.

² tn Heb “and a writing of incision you shall not give in you.”

¹ tn Grk “while being quite diligent to write to you,” or “while making all haste to write to you.” Two issues are at stake: (1) whether σπουδή (spoudē) here means diligence, eagerness, or haste; (2) whether ποιούμενος γράφειν (poioumenos graphein) is to be taken conatively (“I was about to write”) or progressively (“I was writing”). Without knowing more of the background, it is difficult to tell which option is to be preferred.

¹ tn Grk “The greeting in my hand, Paul, which is a sign in every letter, thus I write.”

¹ sn There is irony here. How can Festus write anything definite about Paul, if he is guilty of nothing.

² tn Heb “[to] the writers who write out harm.” The participle and verb are in the Piel, suggesting repetitive action.

² tc M. Dahood has “write his words” (“Metaphor in Job 22:22, ” Bib 47 [1966]: 108-9).

¹ tn The meaning is that of writing down a formal charge against someone (cf. Job 31:15).

¹ tn Heb “written in the book” (so NASB); NIV, NLT “written down in the records”; NRSV “recorded in writing.”

² tn Heb “according to the former writing.” See note on the phrase “the same words” in v. 2.