Discovery Box| (0.60) | (1Sa 2:9) | 4 tn Heb “For not by strength a person prevails.” Since the Lord’s strength is apparent in the context, the translation adds “one’s own” for clarity. |
| (0.60) | (Deu 25:13) | 2 tn Heb “a large and a small,” but since the issue is the weight, “a heavy and a light one” conveys the idea better in English. |
| (0.60) | (Deu 25:3) | 2 tn Heb “Forty blows he may strike him”; however, since the judge is to witness the punishment (v. 2) it is unlikely the judge himself administered it. |
| (0.60) | (Deu 23:19) | 1 tn Heb “to your brother” (likewise in the following verse). Since this is not limited to actual siblings, “fellow Israelite” is used in the translation (cf. NAB, NASB “countrymen”). |
| (0.60) | (Deu 1:8) | 2 tn Heb “the Lord.” Since the Lord is speaking, it is preferable for clarity to supply the first person pronoun in the translation. |
| (0.60) | (Num 27:19) | 1 tn This could be translated “position him,” or “have him stand,” since it is the causative stem of the verb “to stand.” |
| (0.60) | (Num 23:2) | 1 tn The Hebrew text has “on the altar,” but since there were seven of each animal and seven altars, the implication is that this means on each altar. |
| (0.60) | (Num 15:38) | 3 sn The blue color may represent the heavenly origin of the Law, or perhaps, since it is a royal color, the majesty of the Lord. |
| (0.60) | (Num 1:50) | 3 tn The imperfect tense here is an obligatory imperfect telling that they are bound to do this since they are appointed for this specific task. |
| (0.60) | (Exo 32:1) | 7 tn The text has “this Moses.” But this instance may find the demonstrative used in an earlier deictic sense, especially since there is no article with it. |
| (0.60) | (Exo 15:24) | 2 tn The imperfect tense here should be given a potential nuance: “What can we drink?” since the previous verse reports that they were not able to drink the water. |
| (0.60) | (Exo 5:16) | 1 tn Heb “[they] are saying to us,” the line can be rendered as a passive since there is no expressed subject for the participle. |
| (0.60) | (Gen 43:12) | 2 tn Heb “take back in your hand.” The imperfect verbal form probably has an injunctive or obligatory force here, since Jacob is instructing his sons. |
| (0.60) | (Gen 36:26) | 1 tn Heb “Dishan,” but this must be either a scribal error or variant spelling, since “Dishan” is mentioned in v. 28 (see also v. 21). |
| (0.60) | (Gen 27:36) | 1 tn Heb “Is he not rightly named Jacob?” The rhetorical question, since it expects a positive reply, has been translated as a declarative statement. |
| (0.60) | (Gen 15:3) | 2 tn The construction uses הֵן (hen) to introduce the foundational clause (“since…”), and וְהִנֵּה (vehinneh) to introduce the main clause (“then look…”). |
| (0.60) | (Gen 13:8) | 1 tn Heb “men, brothers [are] we.” Here “brothers” describes the closeness of the relationship, but could be misunderstood if taken literally, since Abram was Lot’s uncle. |
| (0.60) | (Gen 11:5) | 2 tn The Hebrew text simply has בָּנוּ (banu), but since v. 8 says they left off building the city, an ingressive idea (“had started building”) should be understood here. |
| (0.60) | (Gen 6:3) | 4 tn Heb “he”; the plural pronoun has been used in the translation since “man” earlier in the verse has been understood as a collective (“humankind”). |
| (0.60) | (Gen 3:17) | 1 tn Since there is no article on the word, the personal name is used, rather than the generic “the man” (cf. NRSV). |
