² tn Or “has borne witness.”

¹ tn Heb “were born.”

¹ tn Heb “and there were born.”

³ tn Grk “born for capture and destruction.”

¹ tn Grk “born of the seed” (an idiom).

¹ tn Heb “And to Shem was born.”

² tn Or “the one born by the Spirit’s [power].”

² tn Grk “in our own language in which we were born.”

³ tn Grk “in order that he should be born blind.”

¹ tn The Greek term translated “born” here also involves conception.

¹ tn Or “a person born of an illegitimate marriage.”

² tn Heb “born of house or born of outside.” CEV interprets as “whether you grew up together or not” (cf. also TEV, NLT).

¹ tn Grk “Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his parents.”

² tn Or “born again.” The same Greek word with the same double meaning occurs in v. 3.

¹ tn The relative clause is carried by the preposition with the resumptive pronoun: “the day [which] I was born in it” meaning “the day on which I was born” (see GKC 486-88 §155.f, i).

² tn Heb “generation. Also the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph.” The expression "born on the knees" implies their adoption by Joseph, which meant that they received an inheritance from him.

⁴ sn Paul’s reference to being born a citizen suggests he inherited his Roman citizenship from his family.

² tn Grk “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the breasts that have not nursed!”

³ sn The birth of the stillborn was in vain—it did it no good to be born.

¹ tn The word “born” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.