Discovery Box| (0.30) | (2Sa 12:18) | 2 tn Heb “he will do harm.” The object is not stated in the Hebrew text. The statement may be intentionally vague, meaning that he might harm himself or them! |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 26:25) | 2 tn Heb “you will certainly do and also you will certainly be able.” The infinitive absolutes placed before the finite verbal forms lend emphasis to the statement. |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 2:23) | 1 tn The MT reads, “Why do you act according to these things which I am hearing—evil things—from all these people?” |
| (0.30) | (Rut 3:5) | 4 tn Heb “everything which you are saying I will do.” The Hebrew word order emphasizes Ruth’s intention to follow Naomi’s instructions to the letter. |
| (0.30) | (Rut 2:16) | 2 tn Heb “do not rebuke her” (so NASB, NRSV); CEV “don’t speak harshly to her”; NLT “don’t give her a hard time.” |
| (0.30) | (Rut 2:10) | 4 tn Heb “Why do I find favor in your eyes by [you] recognizing me.” The infinitive construct with prefixed ל (lamed) here indicates manner (“by”). |
| (0.30) | (Rut 1:11) | 2 tn Heb “Do I still have sons in my inner parts that they might become your husbands?” Again Naomi’s rhetorical question expects a negative answer. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 22:22) | 4 tn Heb “do not save us.” The verb form is singular, being addressed to either collective Israel or the Lord himself. The LXX translates in the third person. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 22:5) | 1 tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 9:20) | 1 tn Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.” |
| (0.30) | (Deu 23:2) | 2 tn Heb “enter the assembly of the Lord.” The phrase “do so” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 23:3) | 3 tn Heb “enter the assembly of the Lord.” The phrase “do so” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 17:16) | 1 tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV). |
| (0.30) | (Deu 13:9) | 2 tn Heb “to put him to death,” but this is misleading in English for such an action would leave nothing for the others to do. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 9:7) | 1 tn By juxtaposing the positive זְכֹר (zekhor, “remember”) with the negative אַל־תִּשְׁכַּח (ʾal tishkakh, “do not forget”), Moses makes a most emphatic plea. |
| (0.30) | (Num 23:20) | 2 sn The reference is probably to the first speech, where the Lord blessed Israel. Balaam knows that there is nothing he can do to reverse what God has said. |
| (0.30) | (Num 8:12) | 2 tn The imperative is from the verb “to do; to make,” but in the sentence it clearly means to sacrifice the animals. |
| (0.30) | (Num 8:7) | 1 tn Or, more literally, “and thus you shall do.” The verb is the imperfect tense of instruction or legislation. Here it introduces the procedures to be followed. |
| (0.30) | (Num 7:5) | 3 tn The sentence uses the infinitive construct expressing purpose, followed by its cognate accusative: “[that they may be] for doing the work of” (literally, “serving the service of”). |
| (0.30) | (Num 1:50) | 3 tn The imperfect tense here is an obligatory imperfect telling that they are bound to do this since they are appointed for this specific task. |
