² tn This phrase in Greek is actually thrown forward to the front of the verse to give it emphasis.

¹ tn Heb “They turned and went and put the children, the cattle, and the possessions in front of them.”

³ tn The Hebrew term מוֹל (mol) may also mean “in front of” or “near” (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

² tn The rendering “balding in front” corresponds to the location of the bareness at the beginning of the verse.

¹ sn Each man was to pass in front of the counting officer and join those already counted on the other side.

² tn Or “placed in front.” Directions in ancient Israel were given in relation to the east rather than the north.

² tn Or “I have been expelled from your attention”; Heb “from in front of your eyes.” See also Ps 31:22 and Lam 3:54-56.

² tn Heb “they [the sinful deeds] are before my face” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); cf. NCV “they are right in front of me.”

² sn Written on the front and back. While it was common for papyrus scrolls to have writing on both sides, the same was not true for leather scrolls.

² tn Heb “I will put stumbling blocks in front of these people.” In this context the stumbling blocks are the invading armies.

² tn Heb “are in front of your face.” The idiom can mean “confront” (Ps 17:13) or “meet, enter the presence of” (Ps 95:2).

¹ tn Heb “the face of his garment,” referring to the outer garment or covering. Some take it to be the front as opposed to the back.

¹ tn The name “Almighty” is here a casus pendens, isolating the name at the front of the sentence and resuming it with a pronoun.

³ tn Heb “and all the entrances and the doorposts [had] four frames, and in front of opening to opening three times” (the precise meaning of the description is uncertain).

² sn Presumably in this case the blood was sprinkled seven times on the ground in front of the ark on which the atonement lid was mounted.

¹ tn Heb “And if from the front edge of his face, his head is rubbed bare.” See the note on v. 40 above.

¹ sn The text seems to describe this part as being in front of the tabernacle, hanging down to form a valence at the entrance (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 284).

² tn Here the verb is an imperfect tense; for the perfect sequence to work the verb would have to be at the front of the clause.

³ tn Heb “I will make you terrified in front of them.” There is a play on words here involving two different forms of the same Hebrew verb and two different but related prepositional phrases, “from before/of,” a preposition introducing the object of a verb of fearing, and “before, in front of,” a preposition introducing a spatial location.

¹ tn Heb “front of.” Describing the sayings as “right in front” means they are open, obvious, and clear, as opposed to words that might be twisted or perverse. The parallel word “upright” means “straight, smooth, right.” Wisdom’s teachings are in plain view and intelligible for those who find knowledge.