Discovery Box| (0.35) | (2Sa 8:2) | 1 tn Heb “and he measured [with] two [lengths] of rope to put to death and [with] the fullness of the rope to keep alive.” |
| (0.35) | (1Sa 11:8) | 1 tc The LXX and two Old Latin mss read 600,000 here, rather than the MT’s 300,000. |
| (0.35) | (1Sa 10:10) | 1 tc Two medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta have the singular “he” (in which case the referent would be Saul alone). |
| (0.35) | (Jdg 11:37) | 2 tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity—I and my friends.” |
| (0.35) | (Jos 2:10) | 1 tn Heb “and what you did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, how you annihilated them.” |
| (0.35) | (Jos 2:4) | 1 tn Heb “The woman took the two men and hid him.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix on “hid” has to be a scribal error (see GKC §135.p). |
| (0.35) | (Deu 17:7) | 1 tn Heb “the hand of the witnesses.” This means the two or three witnesses are to throw the first stones (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). |
| (0.35) | (Deu 12:29) | 1 tn Heb “dwell in their land” (so NASB). In the Hebrew text vv. 29-30 are one long sentence. For stylistic reasons the translation divides it into two. |
| (0.35) | (Deu 12:10) | 3 tn In the Hebrew text vv. 10-11 are one long, complex sentence. For stylistic reasons the translation divides this into two sentences. |
| (0.35) | (Deu 9:17) | 1 tn The Hebrew text includes “from upon my two hands,” but as this seems somewhat obvious and redundant, it has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.35) | (Num 35:1) | 1 sn This section has two main parts, the Levitical cities (vv. 1-8) and the Cities of Refuge (vv. 9-34). |
| (0.35) | (Num 22:12) | 1 tn The two verbs are negated imperfects; they have the nuance of prohibition: You must not go and you must not curse. |
| (0.35) | (Num 20:8) | 1 tn The verb is the Piel perfect with vav (ו) consecutive, following the two imperatives in the verse. Here is the focus of the instruction for Moses. |
| (0.35) | (Num 14:1) | 2 tn The two verbs “lifted up their voice and cried” form a hendiadys; the idiom of raising the voice means that they cried aloud. |
| (0.35) | (Num 11:31) | 5 tn Heb “two cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about 18 inches (45 cm) in length. |
| (0.35) | (Num 9:21) | 3 tn The construction in this half of the verse uses two vav (ו) consecutive clauses. The first is subordinated to the second as a temporal clause: “when…then….” |
| (0.35) | (Num 9:3) | 2 tn The two verbs in this verse are identical; they are imperfects of instruction. The English translation has been modified for stylistic variation. |
| (0.35) | (Num 2:3) | 2 tc The two synonyms might seem to be tautological, but this is fairly common and therefore acceptable in Hebrew prose (cf. Exod 26:18; 38:13; etc.). |
| (0.35) | (Lev 19:19) | 3 sn Cf. Deut 22:11 where the Hebrew term translated “two different kinds” (כִּלְאַיִם, kilʾayim) refers to a mixture of linen and wool woven together in a garment. |
| (0.35) | (Lev 14:10) | 3 tn A “log” (לֹג, log) of oil is about one-sixth of a liter, or one-third of a pint, or two-thirds of a cup. |
