² tn Grk “to eat bread,” an idiom for participating in a meal.

² tn Grk “neither eating bread nor drinking wine,” but this is somewhat awkward in contemporary English.

¹ tn Grk “And they were discussing with one another that they had no bread.”

⁵ tn Heb “your bread,” which makes little sense in the context. The Hebrew word can be revocalized to read, “those who eat bread with you,” i.e., “your friends” (cf. KJV “they that eat thy bread,” NIV “those who eat your bread,” TEV “Those friends who ate with you”).

² tn Heb “and the Master will give to you bread—distress, and water—oppression.”

¹ tn Or “will have plenty of food” (Heb “bread”); so NAB, NASB, NCV.

² tn Heb “bread of secrecies.” It could mean “bread [eaten in] secret places,” a genitive of location; or it could mean “bread [gained through] secrets,” a genitive of source, the secrecies being metonymical for theft. The latter makes a better parallelism in this verse, for bread (= sexually immoral behavior) gained secretly would be like stolen water.

¹ tn Heb “bread of affliction.” Their affliction was part of the cause of why they ate this kind of bread. It could be understood as “the sort of bread made under oppressive circumstances.” The kind of bread was used to symbolize and remind of their affliction.

¹ tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

¹ tn Heb “bread,” although the term can be used for food in general.

² tn Heb “bread,” although the term can be used for food in general.

¹ sn The name basically means that the bread is to be set out in the presence of Yahweh. The custom of presenting bread on a table as a thank offering is common in other cultures as well. The bread here would be placed on the table as a symbol of the divine provision for the twelve tribes—continually, because they were to express their thanksgiving continually. Priests could eat the bread after certain times. Fresh bread would be put there regularly.

⁵ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.

¹ tn Heb “bread.” In light of its parallelism with אֹכֶל (ʾokhel, “food”) in the following line, it is possible that לֶחֶם (lekhem, “bread”) is used in its broader sense of food or nourishment.

¹ tn Heb “bread of deceit” (so KJV, NAB). This refers to food gained through dishonest means. The term “bread” is a synecdoche of specific for general, referring to anything obtained by fraud, including food.

⁴ tn The words “of bread” are not in the Greek text, but are implied by ἄρτους (artous, “loaves”).

¹ sn For the background of the thank offering of bread made with yeast, see Lev 7:13.

³ tn Heb “bread” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV), although the term often serves in a generic sense for food in general.

² tn Or “bread of heaven.” The reference is to manna (see Exod 16:4, 13-15).

¹ sn This bread offered to God was viewed as a perpetual offering to God. See Lev 24:5-9.