Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Lev 25:14) | 4 tn Heb “do not oppress a man his brother.” Here “brother” does not refer only to a sibling, but to a fellow Israelite. |
| (0.30) | (Lev 18:3) | 1 tn Heb “As the work [or “deed”] of the land of Egypt, which you were dwelling in it, you must not do.” |
| (0.30) | (Lev 10:6) | 1 tc Smr has “you must not” (לֹא, loʾ) rather than the MT’s “do not” (אַל, ʾal; cf. the following negative לֹא, loʾ, in the MT). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 34:22) | 1 tn The imperfect tense means “you will do”; it is followed by the preposition with a suffix to express the ethical dative to stress the subject. |
| (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 19:9) | 1 tn The construction uses the deictic particle and the participle to express the imminent future, what God was about to do. Here is the first announcement of the theophany. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 18:23) | 2 tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive now appears in the apodosis of the conditional sentence—“if you do this…then you will be able.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 18:23) | 3 tn Heb “to stand.” B. Jacob (Exodus, 501) suggests that there might be a humorous side to this: “you could even do this standing up.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 15:23) | 2 tn The infinitive construct here provides the direct object for the verb “to be able,” answering the question of what they were not able to do. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 10:7) | 3 tn With the adverb טֶרֶם (terem), the imperfect tense receives a present sense: “Do you not know?” (See GKC 481 §152.r). |
| (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) | (Gen 47:31) | 2 tn Heb “swear on oath to me.” The words “that you will do so” have been supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 34:23) | 1 tn The words “If we do so” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 26:2) | 1 sn Do not go down to Egypt. The words echo Gen 12:10, which reports that “Abram went down to Egypt,” but state the opposite. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 21:23) | 6 tn Heb “According to the loyalty which I have done with you, do with me and with the land in which you are staying.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 17:22) | 1 sn God went up from him. The text draws attention to God’s dramatic exit and in so doing brings full closure to the scene. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 11:8) | 1 tn The infinitive construct לִבְנֹת (livnot, “building”) here serves as the object of the verb “they ceased, stopped,” answering the question of what they stopped doing. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 4:15) | 1 tn The Hebrew term לָכֵן (lakhen, “therefore”) in this context carries the sense of “Okay,” or “in that case then I will do this.” |
| (0.28) | (Rev 2:5) | 2 tn Grk “and do” (a continuation of the previous sentence in the Greek text). For stylistic reasons in English a new sentence was started here in the translation. The repeated mention of repenting at the end of the verse suggests that the intervening material (“do the deeds you did at first”) specifies how the repentance is to be demonstrated. |
| (0.28) | (Jud 1:12) | 8 sn The imagery portraying the false teachers as autumn trees without fruit has to do with their lack of productivity. Recall the statement to the same effect by Jesus in Matt 7:16-20, in which false prophets will be known by their fruits. Like waterless clouds full of false hope, these trees do not yield any harvest even though it is expected. |
