¹ sn This explanatory note links the earlier name Ephrath with the later name Bethlehem.

² tn Grk “should have.” For explanation of the translation, see the note on “have relations with” earlier in this verse.

³ sn Treating Paul kindly. Paul’s treatment followed the pattern of the earlier imprisonment (cf. Acts 24:23).

³ tn The word for “well” has now shifted to φρέαρ (phrear, “cistern”); earlier in the passage it was πηγή (pēgē).

⁴ sn The reply “You say so” is somewhat enigmatic, like Jesus’ earlier reply to the Jewish leadership in 22:70.

³ sn The warnings earlier in Jesus’ teaching have led to the question whether only a few will be saved.

⁵ sn The reply “You say so” is somewhat enigmatic, like Jesus’ earlier reply to the Jewish leadership in 26:64.

¹ tn Heb “For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying….” The quote, however, is part of the earlier letter.

¹ sn The reference to a thank-offering recalls the earlier statement made in v. 14. Gratitude characterizes genuine worship.

² sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

² sn The referent here is Joash of Judah (see 12:21), not Joash of Israel, mentioned earlier in the verse.

⁴ tn Heb “you have made the latter act of devotion better than the former”; NIV “than that which you showed earlier.”

⁴ tn Heb “destroy.” The translation “devour” carries through the imagery of a locust plague earlier in this verse.

³ tn Heb “hands.” For the problem of the pronoun see note on the term “holy ones” earlier in this verse.

¹ tn Heb “this.” The translation uses “that” to avoid confusion; earlier in the verse Moses refers to Transjordan as “this land.”

¹ sn This chapter also will be almost identical to the instructions given earlier, with a few changes along the way.

¹ tn Heb “blessing.” It is as if Jacob is trying to repay what he stole from his brother twenty years earlier.

⁴ sn I have seen God face-to-face. See the note on the name “Peniel” earlier in the verse.

¹ tn The Hebrew verb שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to destroy”) was used earlier to describe the effect of the flood.

¹ tn This is a cognate noun of the verb translated “sexual immorality” earlier in the verse, but here the qualifier “sexual” has not been repeated for stylistic reasons.