1:10 On the seventh day, as King Ahasuerus was feeling the effects of the wine, 1 he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who attended him, 2
56:3 No foreigner who becomes a follower of 3 the Lord should say,
‘The Lord will certainly 4 exclude me from his people.’
The eunuch should not say,
‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’”
1 tn Heb “as the heart of the king was good with the wine.” Here the proper name (King Ahasuerus) has been substituted for the title in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Heb “King Ahasuerus”; here the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun “him” in the translation for stylistic reasons. Cf. similarly NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT “King Xerxes.”
3 tn Heb “who attaches himself to.”
4 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.