16:2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you 1 and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’
2:13 After they had gone, an 2 angel of the Lord 3 appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod 4 is going to look for the child to kill him.”
10:16 “I 5 am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, 6 so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
1 tn Heb “in your hand.”
2 tn Grk “behold, an angel.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).
3 tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 1:20.
4 sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1. Herod the Great was particularly ruthless regarding the succession to his throne.
5 tn Grk “Behold I.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).
6 sn This imagery of wolves is found in intertestamental Judaism; see Pss. Sol. 8:23, 30.