15:36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return 1 and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord 2 to see how they are doing.” 3
4:18 4 So Moses went back 5 to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Let me go, so that I may return 6 to my relatives 7 in Egypt and see 8 if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
1 tn Grk “Returning let us visit.” The participle ἐπιστρέψαντες (epistreyante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
2 tn See the note on the phrase “word of the Lord” in v. 35.
3 tn BDAG 422 s.v. ἔχω 10.b has “how they are” for this phrase.
4 sn This last section of the chapter reports Moses’ compliance with the commission. It has four parts: the decision to return (18-20), the instruction (21-23), the confrontation with Yahweh (24-26), and the presentation with Aaron (27-31).
5 tn The two verbs form a verbal hendiadys, the second verb becoming adverbial in the translation: “and he went and he returned” becomes “and he went back.”
6 tn There is a sequence here with the two cohortative forms: אֵלְכָה נָּא וְאָשׁוּבָה (’elÿkhah nna’ vÿ’ashuva) – “let me go in order that I may return.”
7 tn Heb “brothers.”
8 tn This verb is parallel to the preceding cohortative and so also expresses purpose: “let me go that I may return…and that I may see.”