⁴ tn Grk “at the seventh hour.”

¹ tn Grk “the seventh from Adam.”

¹ tn Heb “on/in the seventh day.”

² tn Grk “the seventh”; the referent (the seventh angel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “And it shall be on the seventh day.”

¹ tn The first word of the seventh line begins with ז (zayin), the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

¹ sn The date would be August 14th, 591 b.c. The seventh year is the seventh year of Jehoiachin’s exile.

¹ tn Heb “and the seventh year”; an adverbial accusative with a disjunctive vav (ו).

¹ tn Heb “On the seventh day they rose early, when the dawn ascended.”

¹ tn Heb “the seventh lot came out for the sons of Dan.”

² sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹ sn This festival in the seventh month was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

² sn The seventh month would be September-October in modern reckoning.

¹ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

¹ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

¹ tn Heb “In the seventh [month], on the twenty-first day of the month.”

¹ tn Grk “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel.”

² sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹ tn Heb “and in the seventh year a Sabbath of complete rest shall be to the land.” The expression “a Sabbath of complete rest” is superlative, emphasizing the full and all inclusive rest of the seventh year of the sabbatical cycle. Cf. ASV “a sabbath of solemn rest”; NAB “a complete rest.”

² tn The imperfect tense has traditionally been rendered as a commandment, “you will labor.” But the point of this commandment is the prohibition of work on the seventh day. The permission nuance of the imperfect works well here.