³ tn Heb “Let me escape to there.” The cohortative here expresses Lot’s request.

³ tn Heb “and let them swarm in the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

² tn These are third person imperatives in Greek (“if [one of you suffers] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed…let him glorify”), but have been translated as second person verbs since this is smoother English idiom.

² tn Heb “and his prisoners did not let loose to [their] homes.” This really means, “he did not let loose his prisoners and send them back to their homes.” On the elliptical style, see GKC 366 §117.o.

³ tn The verb עָזַב (ʿazav) means “to abandon.” It may have an extended meaning of “to let go” or “to let slip.” But the expression “abandon to myself” means to abandon all restraint and give free course to the complaint.

¹ tn Heb “There is great distress to me; let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great, but into the hand of men let me not fall.”

¹ tn Heb “There is great distress to me. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for great is his mercy, but into the hand of man let me not fall.”

² tn The purpose clause here is formed with a second cohortative joined with a vav (ו): “let us go…and let us sacrifice.” The purpose of the going was to sacrifice.

³ tn Grk “let him be accursed” (ἀνάθεμα, anathema). The translation gives the outcome which is implied by this dreadful curse.

¹ tn “Let us thank God for his gift which cannot be described with words” (L&N 33.202).

¹ tn Grk “letting.” The participle ἐάσαντες (easantes) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

² sn Letting the hair grow was associated with taking a vow (Num 6:5; Acts 21:23-26).

⁴ tn The imperfect verb “will pass” may also be a jussive, continuing the element of request: “let the cup pass…”

² tn Heb “Let us make plans against Jeremiah.” See 18:18, where this has sinister overtones as it does here.

² tn Heb “who set free the foot of the ox and donkey”; NIV “letting your cattle and donkeys range free.”

³ tn Heb “raises anger.” A common response to painful words is to let one’s temper flare up.

² tn Heb “let the nations know they [are] man[kind]”; i.e., mere human beings (as opposed to God).

³ tn Heb “to cause them to rest”; NASB “to let them remain”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “to tolerate them.”

³ tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.’”

⁵ tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”