¹ tn Heb “Solomon counted.”

¹ tn Grk “the flesh counts for nothing.”

² tn Heb “to his wisdom there is no counting.”

¹ tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

¹ tn Heb “And you shall count off for yourself.”

¹ sn Each man was to pass in front of the counting officer and join those already counted on the other side.

³ tn Or “he was counted as one of the apostles along with the eleven.”

² tn R. Gordis (Job, 389) thinks “people” here mean the people who count, the upper class.

² tn Heb “Go, count Israel.” See the note on “had” in v. 1.

¹ tn The idiom here is “take up the head,” meaning take a census, or count the totals.

¹ sn This is a significant reduction from the first count of 40,500.

¹ tn The question is again rhetorical; it means no one can count them—they are innumerable.

⁴ tn Heb “which cannot be counted because of abundance.” The imperfect verbal form indicates potential here.

¹ tn The verb is חָשַׁב (khashav, “to reckon; to count; to think”); it is the same verb used for “crediting” Abram with righteousness. Here the tithe of the priests will be counted as if it were a regular tithe.

² sn Jesus linked himself to the disciples’ message: Responding to the disciples (listens to you) counts as responding to him.

¹ tn Heb “and the rest of the trees of his forest will be counted, and a child will record them.”

⁴ tn Heb “cannot be counted” or “cannot be numbered.” The term הִמָּנוֹת (himmanot, Niphal infinitive construct from מָנָה, manah, “to count”) is rendered literally by most translations: “[cannot] be counted” or “[cannot] be numbered” (KJV, ASV, RSV, MLB, NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, JPS, NJPS). However, the nuance “count” might function as a metonymy of effect for cause, that is, “to supply.” What is absent cannot be supplied (cause) therefore, it cannot be counted as present (effect). NAB adopts this approach: “what is missing cannot be supplied.”

¹ tn The expression is “years of number,” meaning that they can be counted, and so “the years are few.” The verb simply means “comes” or “lie ahead.”

³ tn Heb “and incited David to count Israel.” As v. 5 indicates, David was not interested in a general census, but in determining how much military strength he had.

¹ tn The LXX reads “nine sons,” probably counting the grandsons of Joseph born to Ephraim and Manasseh (cf. 1 Chr 7:14-20).