Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Lev 3:6) | 1 tn Heb “a male or female without defect he shall present it”; cf. NLT “must have no physical defects.” |
| (0.35) | (Exo 21:20) | 1 tn Heb “so that he”; the words “or she” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 7:11) | 2 tn The חַרְטֻמִּים (khartummim) seem to have been the keepers of Egypt’s religious and magical texts, the sacred scribes. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 4:10) | 1 sn Now Moses took up another line of argumentation, the issue of his inability to speak fluently (vv. 10-17). The point here is that God’s servants must yield themselves as instruments to God, the Creator. It makes no difference what character traits they have or what weaknesses they think they have (Moses manages to speak very well) if God is present. If the sovereign God has chosen them, then they have everything that God intended them to have. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 49:11) | 1 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically, describing coming events as though they have already taken place. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 49:4) | 3 sn This is a euphemism for having sexual intercourse with Jacob’s concubine Bilhah (see Gen 35:22). |
| (0.35) | (Gen 48:2) | 1 tn Heb “and one told and said.” The verbs have no expressed subject and can be translated with the passive voice. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 47:9) | 5 tn Heb “and they have not reached the days of the years of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.” |
| (0.35) | (Gen 44:17) | 1 tn The words “the rest of” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 44:10) | 3 tn The words “the rest of” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 37:21) | 2 sn From their hands. The instigators of this plot may have been the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah (see v. 2). |
| (0.35) | (Gen 32:30) | 4 sn I have seen God face-to-face. See the note on the name “Peniel” earlier in the verse. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 32:31) | 3 tn The disjunctive clause draws attention to an important fact: He may have crossed the stream, but he was limping. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 32:5) | 2 tn The words “this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 31:30) | 1 tn Heb “and now.” The words “I understand that” have been supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 20:9) | 2 tn Heb “Deeds which should not be done you have done to me.” The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 19:21) | 2 tn Heb “I have lifted up your face [i.e., shown you favor] also concerning this matter.” |
| (0.35) | (Gen 18:13) | 2 tn The Hebrew construction uses both הַאַף (haʾaf) and אֻמְנָם (ʾumnam): “Indeed, truly, will I have a child?” |
| (0.35) | (Gen 16:14) | 1 tn The verb does not have an expressed subject and so is rendered as passive in the translation. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 16:2) | 3 tn Heb “perhaps I will be built from her.” Sarai hopes to have a family established through this surrogate mother. |
