² tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.

¹ tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).

² tn Heb “wrote down for him the officials of Sukkoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.”

¹ tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

² tn Heb “I will add to discipline you seven [times] on your sins.”

² tn Heb “your blow, stroke”; cf. TEV “punishment”; NLT “I will inflict you with seven more disasters.”

³ tn Heb “and the priest will shut up the scall a second seven days.”

² tn Heb “and the priest will shut up the infection of the scall seven days.”

³ tn Heb “and the priest will shut up the infection seven days.”

¹ tn “Seven days” is an adverbial accusative of time (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 12, §56).

¹ tn Heb “are.” Another option is to translate, “There will be seven years of famine.”

³ tn Heb “and he pursued after him a journey of seven days.”

¹ tn The word for “seven” is spelled in an unusual way. From this some have thought it means “twice seven,” or fourteen sons. Several commentators take this view, but it is probably not warranted.

² tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Stream of Egypt, before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days, fourteen days.”

⁷ tc The LXX adds “Girgashites” here at the end of the list in order to list the full (and usual) complement of seven (see note on “seven” in Deut 7:1).

³ tn “Seven days” is an adverbial accusative of time. The ritual of ordination is to be repeated for seven days, and so they are to remain there in the court in full dress.

² tn The text literally has “and seven days were filled.” Seven days gave Pharaoh enough time to repent and release Israel. When the week passed, God’s second blow came.

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “finally” to indicate the conclusion of the seven bowl judgments.

⁴ sn Philip was one of the seven deacons appointed in the Jerusalem church (Acts 6:1-7).

¹ tc The parallel text in the MT of 2 Sam 24:13 has “seven,” but LXX has “three” there.