³ sn A quotation from Gen 15:13. Exod 12:40 specifies the sojourn as 430 years.

³ sn Zechariah’s division would be on duty twice a year for a week at a time.

² sn Jesus’ hometown (where he spent his childhood years) was Nazareth, about 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Capernaum.

² sn Jesus’ hometown (where he spent his childhood years) was Nazareth, about 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Capernaum.

¹ sn In Ezek 4:4-8 it was said that the house of Judah would suffer 40 years.

¹ tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”

¹ sn The meaning of the thirtieth year is problematic. Some take it to mean the age of Ezekiel when he prophesied (e.g., Origen). The Aramaic Targum explains the thirtieth year as the thirtieth year dated from the recovery of the book of the Torah in the temple in Jerusalem (2 Kgs 22:3-9). The number seems somehow to be equated with the fifth year of Jehoiachin’s exile in 1:2, i.e., 593 b.c.

¹ tn Heb “to announce the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of our God’s vengeance.

⁴ tn Heb “At the end of 70 years it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute.”

² sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

⁵ tn Heb “This the sons of Ammon brought to him, and in the second year and the third.”

² tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

² tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

¹ tn Heb “from days to days.” In this phrase “days” idiomatically means a year, as a set of days.

³ tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following verse.

¹ tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following clause.

⁵ tn Heb “and they have not reached the days of the years of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

³ tn Heb “of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt and placed food in the cities.”

¹ tn Heb “blessing.” It is as if Jacob is trying to repay what he stole from his brother twenty years earlier.

¹ tn The sentence simply begins with “twelve years”; it serves as an adverbial accusative giving the duration of their bondage.