Genesis 19:12-16

19:12 Then the two visitors ¹  said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? ²  Do you have ³  any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? ⁴  Get them out of this ⁵  place 19:13 because we are about to destroy ⁶  it. The outcry against this place ⁷  is so great before the Lord that he ⁸  has sent us to destroy it.”

19:14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. ⁹  He said, “Quick, get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy ¹⁰  the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them. ¹¹ 

19:15 At dawn ¹²  the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, ¹³  or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!” ¹⁴  19:16 When Lot ¹⁵  hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. ¹⁶  They led them away and placed them ¹⁷  outside the city.

Numbers 16:26

16:26 And he said to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked ¹⁸  men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because ¹⁹  of all their sins.” ²⁰ 

Acts 2:40

2:40 With many other words he testified ²¹  and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse ²²  generation!”

Acts 2:2

2:2 Suddenly ²³  a sound ²⁴  like a violent wind blowing ²⁵  came from heaven ²⁶  and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Colossians 1:17

1:17 He himself is before all things and all things are held together ²⁷  in him.

[19:12]  ¹ tn Heb “the men,” referring to the angels inside Lot’s house. The word “visitors” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[19:12]  ² tn Heb “Yet who [is there] to you here?”

[19:12]  ³ tn The words “Do you have” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “a son-in-law and your sons and your daughters and anyone who (is) to you in the city.”

[19:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “the place.” The Hebrew article serves here as a demonstrative.

[19:13]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew participle expresses an imminent action here.

[19:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “for their outcry.” The words “about this place” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” The repetition of the divine name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun “he” for stylistic reasons.

[19:14]  ⁹ sn The language has to be interpreted in the light of the context and the social customs. The men are called “sons-in-law” (literally “the takers of his daughters”), but the daughters had not yet had sex with a man. It is better to translate the phrase “who were going to marry his daughters.” Since formal marriage contracts were binding, the husbands-to-be could already be called sons-in-law.

[19:14]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew active participle expresses an imminent action.

[19:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he was like one taunting in the eyes of his sons-in-law.” These men mistakenly thought Lot was ridiculing them and their lifestyle. Their response illustrates how morally insensitive they had become.

[19:15]  ¹² tn Heb “When dawn came up.”

[19:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “who are found.” The wording might imply he had other daughters living in the city, but the text does not explicitly state this.

[19:15]  ¹⁴ tn Or “with the iniquity [i.e., punishment] of the city” (cf. NASB, NRSV).

[19:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Lot) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the compassion of the Lord to them.”

[19:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “brought him out and placed him.” The third masculine singular suffixes refer specifically to Lot, though his wife and daughters accompanied him (see v. 17). For stylistic reasons these have been translated as plural pronouns (“them”).

[16:26]  ¹⁸ tn The word רָשָׁע (rasha’) has the sense of a guilty criminal. The word “wicked” sometimes gives the wrong connotation. These men were opposing the Lord, and so were condemned as criminals – they were guilty. The idea of “wickedness” therefore applies in that sense.

[16:26]  ¹⁹ tn The preposition bet (בְּ) in this line is causal – “on account of their sins.”

[16:26]  ²⁰ sn The impression is that the people did not hear what the Lord said to Moses, but only what Moses said to the people as a result. They saw the brilliant cloud, and perhaps heard the sound of his voice, but the relaying of the instructions indicates they did not hear the actual instruction from the Lord himself.

[2:40]  ²¹ tn Or “warned.”

[2:40]  ²² tn Or “crooked” (in a moral or ethical sense). See Luke 3:5.

[2:2]  ²³ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated for stylistic reasons. It occurs as part of the formula καὶ ἐγένετο (kai egeneto) which is often left untranslated in Luke-Acts because it is redundant in contemporary English. Here it is possible (and indeed necessary) to translate ἐγένετο as “came” so that the initial clause of the English translation contains a verb; nevertheless the translation of the conjunction καί is not necessary.

[2:2]  ²⁴ tn Or “a noise.”

[2:2]  ²⁵ tn While φέρω (ferw) generally refers to movement from one place to another with the possible implication of causing the movement of other objects, in Acts 2:2 φέρομαι (feromai) should probably be understood in a more idiomatic sense of “blowing” since it is combined with the noun for wind (πνοή, pnoh).

[2:2]  ²⁶ tn Or “from the sky.” The Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven” depending on the context.

[1:17]  ²⁷ tn BDAG 973 s.v. συνίστημι B.3 suggests “continue, endure, exist, hold together” here.