³ tn Heb “before our eyes,” meaning that “we see nothing except this manna.”

² tn Heb “and it is concealed from the eyes of her husband.”

³ tn Heb “to all the appearance of the eyes of the priest.”

² tn Heb “is concealed from the eyes of”; NASB, NRSV, NLT “escapes the notice of.”

¹ tn Heb “to the eyes of” which could mean in their opinion.

¹ tn Heb “and if unpleasant (רָעָה, raʿah) in the eyes of her master.”

⁵ tn Heb “between your eyes” (KJV and ASV both similar); the same expression occurs in v. 16.

² tn Heb “eye,” an unusual expression (see v. 5; Num 22:5, 11).

² tn Heb “eye,” an unusual expression (see v. 15; Num 22:5, 11).

⁵ tn Heb “if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians [or “of Egypt”] before their eyes.”

³ tn Heb “I am finding favor in the eyes of my lord.”

¹ tn Heb “In the [place that is] good in your eyes live!”

¹ tc The MT and several medieval Hebrew mss read עֵינִי עֵינִי (ʿeni, ʿeni, “my eye, my eye”). However, the second עֵינִי does not appear in several other medieval Hebrew mss, or in Old Greek, Syriac Peshitta, or Latin Vulgate.

³ tn Alternately, “eye-stone [of your necklace].” The term עִינַיִךְ (ʿinayikh, “your eyes”) probably refers to her physical eyes (e.g., 4:1). However, in Sumero-Akkadian literature the term “eye” sometimes refers to the eye-stone of a necklace. Agate-stones were cut so that white stripes appeared around the black or brown core to look like the pupil on the eye. M. H. Pope (Song of Songs [AB], 482-83) suggests that the parallelism between the A and B lines suggests the following: “with one of your eye-stones” and “with one jewel of your necklace.” See W. G. Lambert, “An Eye Stone of Esarhaddon’s Queen and Other Similar Gems,” RA 63 (1969): 65-71.

¹ sn The “eyes of the Lord” is an anthropomorphic expression; the omniscience of God is the intended meaning. When scripture uses the “eyes” of the Lord, it usually means evaluation, superintending, or safeguarding.

¹ tn Heb “light of the eyes” (so KJV, NRSV). The expression may indicate the gleam in the eyes of the one who tells the good news, as the parallel clause suggests.

² tn Heb “they greatly fell [i.e., were cast down] in their own eyes.” Some scholars suggest emending the reading of the MT, וַיִּפְּלוּ (vayyip^elu) to וַיִּפָּלֵא (vayyippaleʾ, “it was very extraordinary in their eyes”).

¹ sn The text now introduces the Lex Talionis with cases that were not likely to have applied to the situation of the pregnant woman. See K. Luke, “Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth,” Indian Theological Studies 16 (1979): 326-43.

² tn The word order is reversed in the text: “and the right in his eyes you do,” or, “[if] you do what is right in his eyes.” The conditional idea in the first clause is continued in this clause.

² tn Heb “in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh and in the eyes of the people.” In the translation the word “Egyptian” has been supplied to clarify that the Egyptians and not the Israelites are meant here.