Genesis 20:6

20:6 Then in the dream God replied to him, “Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. ¹  That is why I have kept you ²  from sinning against me and why ³  I did not allow you to touch her.

Ruth 2:9

2:9 Take note of ⁴  the field where the men ⁵  are harvesting and follow behind with the female workers. ⁶  I will tell the men ⁷  to leave you alone. ⁸  When you are thirsty, you may go to ⁹  the water jars ¹⁰  and drink some of the water ¹¹  the servants draw.” ¹² 

Proverbs 6:29

6:29 So it is with ¹³  the one who has sex with ¹⁴  his neighbor’s wife;

no one ¹⁵  who touches ¹⁶  her will escape ¹⁷  punishment. ¹⁸ 

[20:6]  ¹ tn Heb “with the integrity of your heart.”

[20:6]  ² tn Heb “and I, even I, kept you.”

[20:6]  ³ tn Heb “therefore.”

[2:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “let your eyes be upon” (KJV, NASB similar).

[2:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “they.” The verb is masculine plural, indicating that the male workers are the subject here.

[2:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “and go after them.” The pronominal suffix (“them”) is feminine plural, indicating that the female workers are referred to here.

[2:9]  ⁷ tn Male servants are in view here, as the masculine plural form of the noun indicates (cf. KJV, NAB, NRSV “the young men”).

[2:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “Have I not commanded the servants not to touch [i.e., “harm”] you?” The idiomatic, negated rhetorical question is equivalent to an affirmation (see v. 8). The perfect is either instantaneous, indicating completion of the action concurrent with the statement (see F. W. Bush, Ruth, Esther [WBC], 107, 121-22, who translates, “I am herewith ordering”) or emphatic/rhetorical, indicating the action is as good as done.

[2:9]  ⁹ tn The juxtaposition of two perfects, each with vav consecutive, here indicates a conditional sentence (see GKC 337 §112.kk).

[2:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “vessels (so KJV, NAB, NRSV), receptacles”; NCV “water jugs.”

[2:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “drink [some] of that which” (KJV similar); in the context “water” is implied.

[2:9]  ¹² tn The imperfect here either indicates characteristic or typical activity, or anterior future, referring to a future action (drawing water) which logically precedes another future action (drinking).

[6:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “thus is the one.”

[6:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “who goes in to” (so NAB, NASB). The Hebrew verb בּוֹא (bo’, “to go in; to enter”) is used throughout scripture as a euphemism for the act of sexual intercourse. Cf. NIV, NRSV, NLT “who sleeps with”; NCV “have sexual relations with.”

[6:29]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “anyone who touches her will not.”

[6:29]  ¹⁶ sn The verb “touches” is intended here to be a euphemism for illegal sexual contact (e.g., Gen 20:6).

[6:29]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “will be exempt from”; NASB, NLT “will not go unpunished.”

[6:29]  ¹⁸ tn The verb is יִנָּקֶה (yinnaqeh), the Niphal imperfect from נָקָה (naqah, “to be empty; to be clean”). From it we get the adjectives “clean,” “free from guilt,” “innocent.” The Niphal has the meanings (1) “to be cleaned out” (of a plundered city; e.g., Isa 3:26), (2) “to be clean; to be free from guilt; to be innocent” (Ps 19:14), (3) “to be free; to be exempt from punishment” [here], and (4) “to be free; to be exempt from obligation” (Gen 24:8).