³ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

² tn Heb “and they turned aside after unjust gain and took bribes and perverted justice.”

¹ tn Heb “and he took 10 men from the elders of the town.”

² tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”

¹ tn Heb “And the man took her on the donkey and arose and went to his place.”

⁵ tn The words “they took away” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹ tn Heb “took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand.”

¹ tn Heb “they took captive and they plundered,” that is, “they captured as plunder.”

¹ tn Heb “and what was in the city and what was in the field they took.”

¹ tn Heb “and it happened in the evening that he took Leah his daughter and brought her.”

¹ tn Heb “And Isaac was the son of forty years when he took Rebekah.”

³ tn Heb “and he took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her.”

² tn Heb “And his mother took for him a wife from the land of Egypt.”

¹ tn Heb “and Abraham rose up early in the morning and he took.”

² tn It is possible that this prepositional phrase modifies “as he was,” not “they took him along.” The meaning would then be “they took him along in the boat in which he was already sitting” (see 4:1).

⁵ sn The attack took place at Jason’s house because this was probably the location of the new house church.

² tn The phrase “you took” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for smoothness.

¹ tn This is the clearest reading, following A. B. Davidson, Job, 285. The versions took different readings of the construction.

¹ tn Heb “and when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered seventy men.”

¹ sn The wheat harvest took place during the month of May. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 37, 88.