Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Lev 15:31) | 2 tn Heb “and they.” Here the Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) indicates a negative purpose (“lest,” so NAB, NASB). |
| (0.35) | (Lev 4:13) | 3 tn Heb “and they do one from all the commandments of the Lord which must not be done” (cf. v. 2). |
| (0.35) | (Exo 35:25) | 1 tn Heb “wisdom of heart,” which means that they were skilled and could make all the right choices about the work. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 27:17) | 1 tn The text uses the passive participle here: they are to “be filleted with silver” or “bound round” with silver. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 26:24) | 1 tn Heb “they will be for the two corners.” This is the last clause of the verse, moved forward for clarity. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 24:11) | 3 sn This is the covenant meal, the peace offering, that they are eating there on the mountain. To eat from the sacrifice meant that they were at peace with God, in covenant with him. Likewise, in the new covenant believers draw near to God on the basis of sacrifice, and eat of the sacrifice because they are at peace with him, and in Christ they see the Godhead revealed. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 14:26) | 1 tn The verb, “and they will return,” is here subordinated to the imperative preceding it, showing the purpose of that act. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 13:21) | 2 tn The infinitive construct here indicates the result of these manifestations—“so that they went” or “could go.” |
| (0.35) | (Exo 12:15) | 2 tn Or “you will eat.” The statement stresses their obligation—they must eat unleavened bread and avoid all leaven. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 8:8) | 5 tn Here also the imperfect tense with the vav (ו) shows the purpose of the release: “that they may sacrifice.” |
| (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) | (Exo 3:18) | 1 tn Heb “And they will listen”; the referent (the elders) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 1:17) | 1 tn Heb “and they [feminine plural] feared”; the referent (the midwives) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 1:13) | 1 tn Heb “the Egyptians.” For stylistic reasons this has been replaced by the pronoun “they” in the translation. |
| (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 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 47:1) | 1 tn Heb “Look they [are] in the land of Goshen.” Joseph draws attention to the fact of their presence in Goshen. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 45:27) | 1 tn Heb “and they spoke to him all the words of Joseph which he had spoke to them.” |
| (0.35) | (Gen 42:9) | 1 sn You are spies. Joseph wanted to see how his brothers would react if they were accused of spying. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 37:18) | 1 tn Heb “and they”; the referent (Joseph’s brothers) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
