¹ tn Heb “and bring into under the stones.”

¹ tn Heb “and stones of the filling.”

¹ tn Heb “them” referring to the stones.

¹ tn Heb “heavy stone” (so NRSV, TEV, NLT); KJV “burdensome stone”; NIV “an immovable rock.”

⁵ tn Heb “stones,” i.e., the stones used in a plumb bob.

¹ tn Aram “stones of rolling.” The reference is apparently to stones too large to carry.

¹ tn Grk “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”

² tn Grk “say to this stone that it should become bread.”

¹ tn Grk “say that these stones should become bread.”

³ sn Lapis lazuli is a dark-blue semiprecious stone.

¹ tn Heb “Take some large stones in your hands.”

¹ tn Heb “so your foot will not strike a stone.”

⁴ tn Heb “and ruin every good portion with stones.”

³ tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”

² tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”

² tn Or “they are almost ready to stone me.”

⁴ tn Grk “not one stone will be left here on a stone which will not be thrown down.”

² tn Heb “of hewn stones.” Gesenius classifies this as an adverbial accusative—“you shall not build them (the stones of the altar) as hewn stones.” The remoter accusative is in apposition to the nearer (GKC 372 §117.kk).

¹ tn The construction simply uses repetition to express different kinds of weights and measures: “a stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah.”

¹ sn The modern stone known as sapphire is thought not to have been used until Roman times, and so some other stone is probably meant here, perhaps lapis lazuli.