¹ tn Heb “tenth.”

² tn Or “a tenth part.”

² tn Or “a tenth part.”

³ tn Or “a tenth part.”

³ tn Grk “about the tenth hour.”

¹ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

² tn The first word of the tenth line begins with י (yod) the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

¹ tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (ʾakh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”

³ sn A Roman cohort was a tenth of a legion, about 500-600 soldiers.

² sn A Roman cohort was a tenth of a legion, about 500-600 soldiers.

¹ sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).

⁵ sn A cohort was a Roman military unit of about 600 soldiers, one-tenth of a legion.

² sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹ sn A tenth of an ephah is about 2.3 liters, one day’s ration for a single person (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:306).

¹ sn 2 Kgs 25:1 and Jer 52:4 give the more precise date of the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year, which would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

¹ tn Heb “The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of…” See 7:1; 11:1; 18:1; 21:1; 30:1 for this same formula.

⁴ tn Heb “an ephah.” An ephah was a dry measure; there were ten ephahs in a homer. So this verse envisions major crop failure, where only one-tenth of the anticipated harvest is realized.

² sn This is the tenth saying; once again there is a warning not to encroach on other people’s rights and property, especially the defenseless (see v. 10; 22:22-23, 28).

¹ sn The first month was the month Abib (= late March-early April in the modern calendar). The preparations for Passover also began on the tenth day of the first month (Exod 12:2-3).

¹ sn The tithed animal was the tenth one that passed under the shepherd’s rod or staff as they were being counted (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 485, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 200).