Discovery Box| (0.41) | (Psa 141:3) | 2 sn My mouth…my lips. The psalmist asks God to protect him from speaking inappropriately or sinfully. |
| (0.41) | (Psa 125:5) | 1 tn Heb “and the ones making their paths twisted.” A sinful lifestyle is compared to a twisting, winding road. |
| (0.41) | (Psa 65:1) | 1 sn Psalm 65. The psalmist praises God because he forgives sin and blesses his people with an abundant harvest. |
| (0.41) | (Psa 25:11) | 1 tn Heb “name.” By forgiving the sinful psalmist, the Lord’s reputation as a merciful God will be enhanced. |
| (0.41) | (Psa 4:4) | 1 sn The psalmist warns his enemies that they need to tremble with fear before God and repudiate their sinful ways. |
| (0.41) | (Job 13:23) | 2 sn Job uses three words for sin here: “iniquities,” which means going astray, erring; “sins,” which means missing the mark or the way; and “transgressions,” which are open rebellions. They all emphasize different kinds of sins and different degrees of willfulness. Job is demanding that any sins be brought up. Both Job and his friends agree that great afflictions would have to indicate great offenses—he wants to know what they are. |
| (0.41) | (Job 11:11) | 1 tn The pronoun is emphatic. Zophar implies that God indeed knows Job’s sin even if Job does not. |
| (0.41) | (Neh 1:6) | 1 tn Heb “have sinned.” For stylistic reasons—to avoid redundancy in English—this was translated as “committed.” |
| (0.41) | (2Ki 10:31) | 2 tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.” |
| (0.41) | (1Sa 12:19) | 1 tn Heb “for we have added to all our sins an evil [thing] by asking for ourselves a king.” |
| (0.41) | (Lev 15:30) | 1 tn Heb “And the priest shall make the one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.” |
| (0.41) | (Lev 5:13) | 1 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4). |
| (0.41) | (Lev 5:10) | 3 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4). |
| (0.41) | (Lev 5:6) | 2 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4). |
| (0.41) | (Lev 4:31) | 1 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4). |
| (0.41) | (Lev 4:35) | 2 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4). |
| (0.41) | (Lev 4:26) | 2 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4). |
| (0.41) | (Lev 4:20) | 2 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4). |
| (0.41) | (Lev 4:8) | 1 tn Heb “all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take up from it.” |
| (0.41) | (Exo 20:14) | 1 sn This is a sin against the marriage of a fellow citizen—it destroys the home. The Law distinguished between adultery (which had a death penalty) and sexual contact with a young woman (which carried a monetary fine and usually marriage if the father was willing). So it distinguished fornication and adultery. Both were sins, but the significance of each was different. In the ancient world this sin is often referred to as “the great sin.” |
