Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Num 16:6) | 1 tn Heb “his congregation” or “his community.” The expression is unusual, but what it signifies is that Korah had set up a rival “Israel” with himself as leader. |
| (0.30) | (Num 7:9) | 1 tn The verb is the imperfect tense, but it describes their customary activity—they had to carry, they used to carry. |
| (0.30) | (Num 6:18) | 3 tn Heb “which is under the peace offering.” The verse does not mean that the hair had to be put under that sacrifice and directly on the fire. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 30:16) | 3 sn S. R. Driver says this is “to keep Jehovah in continual remembrance of the ransom which had been paid for their lives” (Exodus, 334). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 24:1) | 3 sn They were to come up to the Lord after they had made the preparations that are found in vv. 3-8. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 22:1) | 4 tn בָּקַר (baqar) and צֹאן (tsoʾn) are the categories to which the ox and the sheep belonged, so that the criminal had some latitude in paying back animals. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 10:15) | 3 tn The verb is וַתֶּחְשַׁךְ (vattekhshakh, “and it became dark”). The idea is that the ground had the color of the swarms of locusts that covered it. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 2:15) | 2 tn Heb הַדָּבָר (haddavar, “the word [thing, matter, incident]”) functions here like a pronoun to refer in brief to what Moses had done. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 49:23) | 1 tn The verb forms in vv. 23-24 are used in a rhetorical manner, describing future events as if they had already taken place. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 39:14) | 2 sn A Hebrew man. Potiphar’s wife raises the ethnic issue when talking to her servants about what their boss had done. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 37:10) | 1 sn The question What is this dream that you had? expresses Jacob’s dismay at what he perceives to be Joseph’s audacity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:8) | 1 sn Deborah. This woman had been Rebekah’s nurse, but later attached herself to Jacob. She must have been about 180 years old when she died. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 30:19) | 1 tn Heb “and she bore a sixth son for Jacob,” i.e., this was the sixth son that Leah had given Jacob. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 30:17) | 3 tn Heb “and she bore for Jacob a fifth son,” i.e., this was the fifth son that Leah had given Jacob. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 28:4) | 3 tn Heb “the land of your sojournings,” that is, the land where Jacob had been living as a resident foreigner, as his future descendants would after him. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 25:9) | 1 sn The cave of Machpelah was the place Abraham had purchased as a burial place for his wife Sarah (Gen 23:17-18). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 23:16) | 5 tn Heb “that he had spoken.” The referent (Ephron) has been specified here in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 20:10) | 2 tn Heb “What did you see that you did this thing?” The question implies that Abraham had some motive for deceiving Abimelech. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 19:23) | 1 sn The sun had just risen. There was very little time for Lot to escape between dawn (v. 15) and sunrise (here). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 19:15) | 2 tn Heb “who are found.” The wording might imply he had other daughters living in the city, but the text does not explicitly state this. |
