Luke 1:15

1:15 for he will be great in the sight of ¹  the Lord. He ²  must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. ³ 

Luke 1:44

1:44 For the instant ⁴  the sound of your greeting reached my ears, ⁵  the baby in my womb leaped for joy. ⁶ 

Genesis 25:22

25:22 But the children struggled ⁷  inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” ⁸  So she asked the Lord, ⁹ 

Psalms 22:10

22:10 I have been dependent on you since birth; ¹⁰ 

from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God. ¹¹ 

[1:15]  ¹ tn Grk “before.”

[1:15]  ² tn Grk “and he”; because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun in the translation.

[1:15]  ³ tn Grk “even from his mother’s womb.” While this idiom may be understood to refer to the point of birth (“even from his birth”), Luke 1:41 suggests that here it should be understood to refer to a time before birth.

[1:44]  ⁴ tn Grk “for behold.”

[1:44]  ⁵ tn Grk “when the sound of your greeting [reached] my ears.”

[1:44]  ⁶ sn On the statement the baby in my womb leaped for joy see both 1:14 and 1:47. This notes a fulfillment of God’s promised word.

[25:22]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew word used here suggests a violent struggle that was out of the ordinary.

[25:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “If [it is] so, why [am] I this [way]?” Rebekah wanted to know what was happening to her, but the question itself reflects a growing despair over the struggle of the unborn children.

[25:22]  ⁹ sn Asked the Lord. In other passages (e.g., 1 Sam 9:9) this expression refers to inquiring of a prophet, but no details are provided here.

[22:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “upon you I was cast from [the] womb.”

[22:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from the womb of my mother you [have been] my God.”