² tn Heb “upon their beds.”

¹ tn Heb “beds of ivory.”

³ tn Or “making [their] bed.”

¹ tn Heb “on his bed.”

¹ tn Heb “falls to bed.”

² tn Heb “with a corner of a bed.”

³ tn That is, “the dry stream bed.”

¹ tn Heb “And a man who touches in his bed”; NLT “touch the man’s bedding.”

⁴ tn Heb “you make wide your bed” (NASB similar).

³ tn Heb “go up upon the bed of my couch.”

² tn Heb “with my tears my bed I flood/melt.”

¹ tn Heb “All the bed which the man with a discharge sits on it shall be unclean”; cf. NLT “Any bedding.”

³ tn Grk “my children are with me in the bed.” In Jewish homes in the time of Jesus, the beds were often all together in one room; thus the householder may be speaking of individual beds (using a collective singular) rather than a common bed.

³ tn Aram “your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed.”

¹ tn Aram “your thoughts upon your bed went up to what will be after this.”

¹ tn Heb “The sons of Babel came to her on a bed of love.”

³ tn Heb “it will go up over all its stream beds and go over all its banks.”

¹ tn Heb “I cause to swim through all the night my bed.”

⁴ tn Heb “and as a stream bed of brooks/torrents.” The word אָפִיק (ʾafiq) is the river bed or stream bed where the water flows. What is more disconcerting than finding a well-known torrent whose bed is dry when one expects it to be gushing with water (E. Dhorme, Job, 86)?

² tn Heb “lies down with,” a euphemism for going to bed for sexual relations.