¹ tn Heb “tenth.”

² tn Or “a tenth part.”

² tn Or “a tenth part.”

³ tn Or “a tenth part.”

³ tn Grk “about the tenth hour.”

¹ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

¹ tn The first word of the tenth line begins with י (yod) the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

¹ tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”

¹ sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).

² sn A Roman cohort was a tenth of a legion, about 500-600 soldiers.

³ sn A Roman cohort was a tenth of a legion, about 500-600 soldiers.

² sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁵ sn A cohort was a Roman military unit of about 600 soldiers, one-tenth of a legion.

¹ sn A tenth of an ephah is about 2.3 liters, one day’s ration for a single person (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:306).

¹ sn 2 Kgs 25:1 and Jer 52:4 give the more precise date of the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year which would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

³ tn Heb “and all which you give to me I will surely give a tenth of it to you.” The disjunctive clause structure (conjunction + noun/object) highlights this statement as well.

² sn See further G. Wittenburg, “The Tenth Commandment in the Old Testament,” Journal for Theology in South Africa 21 (1978): 3-17: and E. W. Nicholson, “The Decalogue as the Direct Address of God,” VT 27 (1977): 422-33.

¹ sn The tithed animal was the tenth one that passed under the shepherd’s rod or staff as they were being counted (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 485, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 200).

¹ sn The first month was the month Abib (= late March-early April in the modern calendar). The Passover in Egypt also occurred on the tenth day of the first month (Exod 12:2; 13:4).

² sn This is the tenth saying; once again there is a warning not to encroach on other people’s rights and property, especially the defenseless (see v. 10; 22:22-23, 28).