1 Samuel 15:15

15:15 Saul said, “They were brought ¹  from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

Genesis 3:13

3:13 So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this ²  you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent ³  tricked ⁴  me, and I ate.”

Exodus 32:22-23

32:22 Aaron said, “Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord; ⁵  you know these people, that they tend to evil. ⁶  32:23 They said to me, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

¹ tn Heb “they brought them.”

² tn The use of the demonstrative pronoun is enclitic, serving as an undeclined particle for emphasis. It gives the sense of “What in the world have you done?” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 24, §118).

³ sn The Hebrew word order puts the subject (“the serpent”) before the verb here, giving prominence to it.

⁴ tn This verb (the Hiphil of נָשָׁא, nasha) is used elsewhere of a king or god misleading his people into false confidence (2 Kgs 18:29 = 2 Chr 32:15 = Isa 36:14; 2 Kgs 19:10 = Isa 37:10), of an ally deceiving a partner (Obad 7), of God deceiving his sinful people as a form of judgment (Jer 4:10), of false prophets instilling their audience with false hope (Jer 29:8), and of pride and false confidence producing self-deception (Jer 37:9; 49:16; Obad 3).

⁵ sn “My lord” refers to Moses.

⁶ tn Heb “that on evil it is.”