Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Exo 14:3) | 3 tn The expression has also been translated “the desert has shut [the way] for them,” and more freely “[the Israelites are] hemmed in by the desert.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 13:12) | 5 tn The Hebrew text simply has “the males to Yahweh.” It indicates that the Lord must have them, or they belong to the Lord. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 13:9) | 8 tn This causal clause gives the reason for what has just been instructed. Because Yahweh delivered them from bondage, he has the strongest claims on their life. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 12:3) | 1 tn Heb “and they will take for them a man a lamb.” This is clearly a distributive, or individualizing, use of “man.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 11:2) | 3 sn Here neighbor refers to Egyptian neighbors, who are glad to see them go (12:33) and so willingly give their jewelry and vessels. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 8:14) | 1 tn Heb “and they piled them.” For clarity the translation supplies the referent “the Egyptians” as the ones who were piling the frogs. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 6:6) | 3 tn Heb “from labor of them.” The antecedent of the pronoun is the Egyptians who have imposed slave labor on the Hebrews. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 5:19) | 3 tn The clause “when they were told” translates לֵאמֹר (leʾmor), which usually simply means “saying.” The thing that was said was clearly the decree that was given to them. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 49:29) | 1 tn The Hebrew text adds “and he said to them,” which is not included in the translation because it is redundant in English. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 47:11) | 1 tn Heb “a possession,” or “a holding.” Joseph gave them a plot of land with rights of ownership in the land of Goshen. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 42:23) | 2 tn “was listening.” The brothers were not aware that Joseph could understand them as they spoke the preceding words in their native language. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:56) | 2 tc The MT reads “he opened all that was in [or “among”] them.” The translation follows the reading of the LXX and Syriac versions. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:3) | 1 tn Heb “And look, seven other cows were coming up after them from the Nile, bad of appearance and thin of flesh.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 40:4) | 1 sn He served them. This is the same Hebrew verb, meaning “to serve as a personal attendant,” that was translated “became [his] servant” in 39:4. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 37:4) | 2 tn Heb “of his brothers.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun “them.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:4) | 3 sn Jacob buried them. On the burial of the gods, see E. Nielson, “The Burial of the Foreign Gods,” ST 8 (1954/55): 102-22. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 25:6) | 2 tn Heb “And he sent them away from upon Isaac his son, while he was still living, eastward to the land of the east.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 24:22) | 3 tn The words “and gave them to her” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied (cf. Gen 24:30). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 19:17) | 1 tn Or “one of them”; Heb “he.” Several ancient versions (LXX, Vulgate, Syriac) read the plural “they.” See also the note on “your” in v. 19. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 18:2) | 4 tn The Hebrew preposition עַל (ʿal) indicates the three men were nearby, but not close by, for Abraham had to run to meet them. |
