6:22 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, 1
1 tn Heb “and if the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.”
2 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”
3 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”
3 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
4 tn Heb “struck them down with a great striking down.”
5 tn Heb “and [the] slain from Israel fell, five hundred thousand chosen men.”
5 tn Heb “the sons of Ammon and Moab stood against the residents of Mount Seir.”
6 tn Heb “to annihilate and to destroy.”
7 tn Heb “residents.”
8 tn Heb “they helped, each one his fellow, for destruction.” The verb עָזַר (’azar), traditionally understood as the well-attested verb meaning “to help,” is an odd fit in this context. It is possible that it is from a homonymic root, perhaps meaning to “attack.” This root is attested in Ugaritic in a nominal form meaning “young man, warrior, hero.” For a discussion of the proposed root, see HALOT 811 s.v. II עזר.
6 tn Heb “house.”
7 tn Heb “and be with the king in his coming out and in his going out.”
7 tn Heb “from the hand of the Levites.”