³ tn Or “pure”; Heb “choice.”

³ tn Or “persons of pure motives.”

⁵ tn Heb “pure as the sun.”

¹ tn Possibly meaning “pure gold lampstand.”

³ tn Grk “pure motives and sincerity of God.”

³ tn Heb “to the pure of heart.”

¹ tn Heb “not pure in his eyes.”

¹ tn Or “pure”; or “fair”; Heb “righteous.”

³ tn Or “she will be[come] pure.”

³ tn Or “she will be[come] pure.”

³ tn Heb “and after it [are] the pure of heart.”

² tn Heb “of everyone not pure to consecrate to the Lord.”

² tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

¹ tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

² tn Grk “love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”

² tn Grk “clean, pure,” thus “guiltless” (BDAG 489 s.v. καθαρός 3.a).

¹ tn Heb “Certainly [or perhaps, “For”] then I will restore to the nations a pure lip.”

² tn More literally, “and the knowledge of my lips they will speak purely.”

² tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”

⁵ tc The MT simply has “but pleasant words are pure” (Heb “but pure [plural] are the words of pleasantness”). Some English versions add “to him” to make the connection to the first part (cf. NAB, NIV). The LXX has: “the sayings of the pure are held in honor.” The Vulgate has: “pure speech will be confirmed by him as very beautiful.” The NIV has paraphrased here: “but those of the pure are pleasing to him.”