Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Exo 35:21) | 3 tn Heb “his spirit made him willing.” The verb is used in Scripture for the freewill offering that people brought (Lev 7). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 34:10) | 3 sn The idea is that God will be doing awesome things in dealing with them, i.e., to fulfill his program. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 34:2) | 2 sn The same word is used in Exod 33:21. It is as if Moses was to be at his post when Yahweh wanted to communicate to him. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 33:8) | 3 tn The subject of this verb is specified with the individualizing use of “man”: “and all Israel would station themselves, each person (man) at the entrance to his tent.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 23:10) | 1 sn This section concerns religious duties of the people of God as they worship by giving thanks to God for their blessings. The principles here are: God requires his people to allow the poor to share in their bounty (10-11); God requires his people to provide times of rest and refreshment for those who labor for them (12); God requires allegiance to himself (13); God requires his people to come before him in gratitude and share their bounty (14-17); God requires that his people safeguard proper worship forms (18-19). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 22:4) | 3 sn He must pay back one for what he took, and then one for the penalty—his loss as he was inflicting a loss on someone else. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 15:17) | 2 sn The “mountain” and the “place” would be wherever Yahweh met with his people. It here refers to Canaan, the land promised to the patriarchs. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 15:3) | 2 tn Heb “Yahweh is his name.” As throughout, the name “Yahweh” is rendered as “the Lord” in the translation, as is typically done in English translations. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 12:22) | 3 tn Heb “and you, you shall not go out, a man from the door of his house.” This construction puts stress on prohibiting absolutely everyone from going out. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 9:34) | 1 tn The clause beginning with the preterite and vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the next, and main clause—that he hardened his heart again. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 6:1) | 1 sn The expression “I will do to Pharaoh” always refers to the plagues. God would first show his sovereignty over Pharaoh before defeating him. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 3:8) | 1 sn God’s coming down is a frequent anthropomorphism in Genesis and Exodus. It expresses his direct involvement, often in the exercise of judgment. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 1:5) | 2 tn The expression in apposition to נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) literally says “those who went out from the loins of Jacob.” This distinguishes the entire company as his direct descendants. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 50:1) | 1 tn Heb “fell on.” The expression describes Joseph’s unrestrained sorrow over Jacob’s death; he probably threw himself across the body and embraced his father. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 48:13) | 2 tn Heb “and he brought near to him.” The referents of the pronouns “he” and “him” (Joseph and his father respectively) have been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 45:8) | 1 tn Heb “a father.” The term is used here figuratively of one who gives advice, as a father would to his children. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 43:12) | 2 tn Heb “take back in your hand.” The imperfect verbal form probably has an injunctive or obligatory force here, since Jacob is instructing his sons. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 42:38) | 2 sn The expression he alone is left meant that (so far as Jacob knew) Benjamin was the only surviving child of his mother Rachel. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 42:4) | 1 tn Heb “But Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, Jacob did not send with his brothers.” The disjunctive clause highlights the contrast between Benjamin and the other ten. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:11) | 1 tn Heb “and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he, each according to the interpretation of his dream we dreamed.” |
