⁴ tn Or “ancestor.”

¹ tn Grk “from my ancestors.”

¹ tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”

² tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”

¹ tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”

² tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”

² tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”

³ tn Or “about our noted ancestor,” “about the patriarch.”

¹ tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NIV “forefathers”; NCV “ancestors.”

¹ tn Heb “lie down with your fathers” (so NASB); NRSV “ancestors.”

³ tn Or “forefathers,” or “ancestors.” Here the referent could be the immediate parents or, by their example, more distant ancestors.

¹ tn Or perhaps “ancestors” (so NRSV), although the only “ancestors” Jacob had there were his grandfather Abraham and his father Isaac.

¹ tn Heb “fathers”; a number of more recent English versions use the more general “ancestors” here.

¹ tn Heb “fathers,” but here the term also refers to “forefathers,” i.e., more distant ancestors.

¹ tn Heb “We have obeyed and done according to all that our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.”

¹ tn The pronominal suffix refers back to the “fathers” (“our ancestors,” v. 3).

¹ tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors.

¹ tn Heb “and it will be when your days are full to go with your ancestors.”

¹ tn Heb, “when your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors.”

² sn You will go to your ancestors. This is a euphemistic expression for death.