¹ tn Heb “how much less.”

⁴ tn Or perhaps “a,” though this is less likely.

⁴ sn In 2 Pet 2:4 a less common word for chains is used.

¹ tn Or “think the less of them”; Grk “despise them,” “look down on them.”

² tn Grk “let a widow be enrolled if she has reached not less than sixty years.”

² tn Traditionally, “hinds.” A hind is a female deer, generally less than three years old.

³ tn Or “not a human being.” The psalmist perceives himself as less than human.

³ tn Grk “according to [his] promise.” The comparative clause “just as he promised” is less awkward in English.

³ tn Grk “he tears.” The point is that the new garment will be ruined to repair an older, less valuable one.

¹ tn Heb “held back downwards from”; KJV “hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve” (NIV, NRSV, NLT all similar).

¹ tn Grk “forty less one”; this was a standard sentence. “Lashes” is supplied to clarify for the modern reader what is meant.

¹ tn Grk “Therefore when I was sent for.” The passive participle μεταπεμφθείς (metapemphtheis) has been taken temporally and converted to an active construction which is less awkward in English.

³ tn Grk “Now there happened on that day a great persecution.” It is less awkward to say in English “Now on that day a great persecution began.”

⁶ tn Grk “for they feared lest they be stoned by the people.” The translation uses a less awkward English equivalent. This is an explanatory note by the author.

¹ sn The village of Bethany, where Lazarus was, lies in Judea, less than 2 mi (3 km) from Jerusalem (see 11:18).

³ sn Merchants would use a smaller than standard measure so they could give the customer less than he thought he was paying for.

³ tn A מִדְבָּר (midbar, “wilderness”) receives less than twelve inches of rain per year and therefore cannot support trees and has little plant life.

² tn Here בָּעַר (baʿar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.

¹ tn Here בִּעֵר (biʿer) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

¹ tn Heb “arose,” the verb קוּם (qum) in this context certainly must describe a less ceremonial act. The entire country woke up in terror because of the deaths.