¹ tn Heb “and was lame.”

¹ tn Heb “make the lame into a remnant.”

⁴ tn Grk “lame from his mother’s womb” (an idiom).

³ tn The lamed preposition expresses possession here: “to me” means “my.”

² tc Heb “No man.” The lamed (ל) prefixed to אִישׁ (ʾish, “man”) is probably dittographic (note the immediately preceding יִשְׂרָאֵל [yisraʾel] which ends in lamed, ל); cf. the LXX.

¹ tn Grk “So he”; the referent (the lame man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ sn The exiles of the nation are compared to lame and injured sheep.

² tn The infinitive construct here with ל (lamed) is functioning as a result clause.

¹ tn The verb קָרָא (qaraʾ) followed by the lamed (ל) preposition has the meaning “to summon.”

² tn The verb הָיָה (hayah) followed by the preposition ל (lamed) means “become.”

² tn The verb קָרָא (qaraʾ) followed by the preposition ל (lamed) means “to summon.”

¹ tn The preposition ל (lamed) introduces the agent after the passive participle.

¹ sn Offerings of animals that were lame or sick were strictly forbidden by the Mosaic law (see Deut 15:21).

¹ tn The first word of the twelfth line begins with ל (lamed), the twelfth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

² tn The two infinitival forms (both with prefixed preposition ל, lamed) give the purpose for his appearance at the altar.

¹ tn The verb קָרָא (qaraʾ) followed by the ל (lamed) preposition means “to summon.” Contrast Ps 123:2.

⁴ tn The verb הָיָה (hayah, “to be”) has the meaning “to become” when followed by the preposition ל (lamed).

³ sn See M. Dahood, “Vocative lamed in Exodus 2, 4 and Merismus in 34, 21, ” Bib 62 (1981): 413-15.

³ tn The infinitive construct with the preposition ל (lamed) is used here epexegetically, explaining the delay of Moses.

¹ tn Or “for me” (NIV, NRSV), or, if the preposition ל (lamed) has a possessive use, “my kingdom” (so NCV).