³ sn Before our ancestors. Stephen has backtracked here to point out how faithful God had been before the constant move to idolatry just noted.

² tn The clause containing the aorist active participle ἐλθών (elthōn) suggests that the Levite came up to the place, took a look, and then moved on.

¹ sn The word order is rhetorical: the accusative וְאֶת־בָּנֶיהָ (v^eʾet baneha, “her sons”) is moved forward for emphasis.

¹ sn The passage jumps forward in time here, moving from the Egyptian army being summoned to battle to a description of their being routed in defeat.

¹ tn The words “The Lord says” have been moved up from the end of the verse to make clear that a change in speaker has occurred.

³ tn Heb “Cut down its trees and build up a siege ramp against Jerusalem.” The referent has been moved forward from the second line for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “he leveled a path for his anger.” There were no obstacles to impede its progress; it moved swiftly and destructively.

⁴ tn Many commentators simply delete the verse or move it elsewhere. Most take it as a general reference to Job, perhaps in apposition to the preceding verse.

¹ tn Heb “and he.” Some of the commentators move the verse and put it after Job 14:2, 3 or 6.

³ sn The signal for moving camp was apparently different in tone and may have been sharper notes or a different sequence. It was in some way distinguishable.

¹ tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves along”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.

² tn The verb means “lift up, bear, carry.” Here the subject is “heart” or will, and so the expression describes one moved within to act.

² tn The verb is placed here in the text: “and I will speak”; it has been moved in this translation to be closer to the direct object clause.

¹ tn Heb “and I, I will move along according to my leisure at the foot of the property which is before me and at the foot of the children.”

² tn The introductory clause “And Abraham said to him” has been moved to the end of the opening sentence of direct discourse in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “for their outcry.” The words “this place” have been moved from earlier in the sentence for stylistic reasons, and "about" has been added.

¹ tn Heb “on his journeys”; the verb and noun combination means to pick up the tents and move from camp to camp.

¹ tn According to L&N 15.1, “A strictly literal translation of κινέω in Ac 17:28 might imply merely moving from one place to another. The meaning, however, is generalized movement and activity; therefore, it may be possible to translate κινούμεθα as ‘we come and go’ or ‘we move about’ or even ‘we do what we do.’”

⁴ tc Most later mss (A Θ 0102 M) alter the word order by moving the verb forward in the quotation. This alteration removes the emphasis from “the Lord your God” as the one to receive worship (as opposed to Satan) by moving it away from the beginning of the quotation.

¹ tn Heb “a backslidden heart.” The term סוּג (sug) means “to move away; to move backwards; to depart; to backslide” (BDB 690 s.v. I סוּג). This individual is the one who backslides, that is, who departs from the path of righteousness.