² tn Heb “a month in its month.”

¹ tn Heb “of your months.”

¹ tn Heb “to this month.”

¹ tn “month” has been supplied.

² tn Heb “a month of days.”

³ tn Heb “a month of days.”

¹ tn Heb “In the seventh [month], on the twenty-first day of the month.”

¹ sn The first month would be the month of Nisan, during which Passover was observed.

³ tn Heb “from day to day and from month to month” (so KJV, NASB).

⁴ tn Or “twelve crops” (one for each month of the year).

¹ tn Heb “a month of days.” So also in v. 21.

¹ tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”

¹ sn In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month would be September 17, 592 b.c., about fourteen months after the initial vision.

¹ sn The first month was the month Abib (= late March-early April in the modern calendar). The preparations for Passover also began on the tenth day of the first month (Exod 12:2-3).

¹ sn The fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month would be December 7, 518 b.c., 22 months after the previous eight visions.

³ sn As is typical with Luke the timing is approximate (about three months), not specific.

¹ tn March 17, 585 b.c. The LXX adds “first month.”

¹ sn Elul was the sixth month, or August-September by modern reckoning.

² sn Apparently it took the caravan almost four months to make the 500 mile journey.

¹ sn This festival in the seventh month was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.