³ tn Heb “If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, why to me life?”

² tn Heb “Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.” In the translation the words “let…marry” and “as wives” are supplied for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “daughters.” The term “daughters” refers to the cities of Judah surrounding Zion (see Ps 48:11 and H. Haag, TDOT 2:336).

¹ tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”

³ tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”

² tn Heb “and you have led away my daughters like captives of a sword.”

⁴ tn Heb “but to my daughters what can I do to these today?”

¹ tn Heb “all the lives of his sons and his daughters, thirty-three.”

² tn Heb “and thirty daughters he brought for his sons from the outside.”

¹ tn Heb “and he saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

² tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

¹ tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”

¹ tn 2 Chr 2:14 (13 HT) says “from the daughters of Dan.”

¹ tn Heb “its daughters.” So also in vv. 27, 28, 30, and 31.

¹ tn Heb “the daughters of the king.” See the translator’s note on 41:10.

² tn Heb “Your sons will be taken away into captivity, your daughters into exile.”

¹ sn The title Daughters of Jerusalem portrays these women mourning as representatives of the nation.

¹ tn Heb “the daughters of the king.” Most commentators do not feel that this refers to the actual daughters of Zedekiah since they would have been too politically important to have escaped exile with their father. As noted in the translator’s note on 36:26 this need not refer to the actual daughters of the king but may refer to other royal daughters, i.e., the daughters of other royal princes.

¹ sn For additional information on this section, see N. H. Snaith, “The Daughters of Zelophehad,” VT 16 (1966): 124-27; and J. Weingreen, “The Case of the Daughters of Zelophehad,” VT 16 (1966): 518-22.

¹ tn Heb “and she arose, along with her daughters-in-law, and she returned from the region of Moab.”