Proverbs 6:16

There are six things that the Lord hates, even ¹  seven ²  things that are an abomination to him: ³ 

De 18:10-12; De 23:18; De 24:4; De 25:16; Ps 11:5; Pr 3:32; Pr 8:13; Pr 11:1,20; Pr 15:8,9; Pr 17:15; Pr 20:10,23; Pr 30:18,21,24,29; Am 1:3,6,9,11; Am 2:1,4,6; Re 21:27

¹ tn The conjunction has the explicative use here (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 71, §434).

² sn This saying involves a numerical ladder, paralleling six things with seven things (e.g., also 30:15, 18, 21, 24, 29). The point of such a numerical arrangement is that the number does not exhaust the list (W. M. Roth, “The Numerical Sequence x / x +1 in the Old Testament,” VT 12 [1962]: 300-311; and his “Numerical Sayings in the Old Testament,” VT 13 [1965]: 86).

³ tn Heb “his soul.”