Discovery Box| (0.53290533333333) | (Exo 20:20) |
2 tn The suffix on the noun is an objective genitive, referring to the fear that the people would have of God (GKC 439 §135.m). |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Exo 20:22) |
1 sn Based on the revelation of the holy sovereign God, this pericope instructs Israel on the form of proper worship of such a God. It focuses on the altar, the centerpiece of worship. The point of the section is this: those who worship this holy God must preserve holiness in the way they worship – they worship where he permits, in the manner he prescribes, and with the blessings he promises. This paragraph is said to open the Book of the Covenant, which specifically rules on matters of life and worship. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Exo 22:4) |
3 sn He must pay back one for what he took, and then one for the penalty – his loss as he was inflicting a loss on someone else. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Exo 23:2) |
2 tn For any individual to join a group that is bent on acting wickedly would be a violation of the Law and would incur personal responsibility. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Exo 28:12) |
1 sn This was to be a perpetual reminder that the priest ministers on behalf of the twelve tribes of Israel. Their names would always be borne by the priests. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Exo 32:17) |
1 sn See F. C. Fensham, “New Light from Ugaritica V on Ex, 32:17 (br’h),” JNSL 2 (1972): 86-7. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Exo 33:1) |
1 tn The two imperatives underscore the immediacy of the demand: “go, go up,” meaning “get going up” or “be on your way.” |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Exo 40:4) |
1 tn Heb “and you will set in order its setting” or “arrange its arrangement.” See 25:29-30 for items that belonged on the table. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 3:3) |
1 tn Heb “Then he”; the referent (the person presenting the offering) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. the note on Lev 1:5). |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 4:24) |
1 tn The LXX has a plural form here and also for the same verb later in the verse. See the note on Lev 1:5a. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 4:27) |
2 tn Heb “If one person sins by straying, from the people of the land.” See Lev 4:2 for a note on “straying.” |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 6:2) |
1 tn Heb “trespasses a trespass” (verb and direct object from the same Hebrew root מַעַל, ma’al). See the note on 5:15. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 6:8) |
1 sn Lev 6:8 in the English Bible = 6:1 in the Hebrew text. See also the note on 6:1. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 7:16) |
1 tn For the distinction between votive and freewill offerings see the note on Lev 22:23 and the literature cited there. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 8:27) |
1 sn The “palms” refer to the up-turned hands, positioned in such a way that the articles of the offering could be placed on them. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 10:13) |
2 tn For the rendering of the Hebrew אִשֶׁה (’isheh) as “gift” rather than “offering [made] by fire,” see the note on Lev 1:9. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 10:16) |
1 sn This is the very same male goat offered in Lev 9:15 (cf. the note on Lev 10:1 above). |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 11:13) |
1 tn For zoological remarks on the following list of birds see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:662-64; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 159-60. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 11:22) |
1 tn For entomological remarks on the following list of insects see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:665-66; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 160-61. |
| (0.53290533333333) | (Lev 11:39) |
1 tn This word for “animal” refers to land animal quadrupeds, not just any beast that dwells on the land (cf. 11:2). |
