¹ tn Heb “eating.”

² tn Heb “eating and drinking.”

¹ tn Heb “eating and drinking.”

⁶ tn Heb “[every] man according to his eating.”

³ tn The form is the plural imperative: “Gather [you] each man according to his eating.”

⁵ tn Heb “until he finishes eating and drinking”; NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV “until he has finished.”

¹ tn Heb “for eating to fullness and for beautiful covering[s].”

² tn Grk “And those eating were four thousand men, apart from children and women.”

² tn Grk “neither eating bread nor drinking wine,” but this is somewhat awkward in contemporary English.

⁵ sn In painful toil you will eat. The theme of eating is prominent throughout Gen 3. The prohibition was against eating from the tree of knowledge. The sin was in eating. The interrogation concerned the eating from the tree of knowledge. The serpent is condemned to eat the dust of the ground. The curse focuses on eating in a “measure for measure” justice. Because the man and the woman sinned by eating the forbidden fruit, God will forbid the ground to cooperate, and so it will be through painful toil that they will eat.

¹ tn Heb “And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard, now they had finished eating.”

² sn The idiom of eating the pieces of someone means “slander” in Aramaic (see Dan 3:8), Arabic and Akkadian.

¹ sn Eating the fat and drinking blood were God’s exclusive rights in Israelite sacrifices (Lev 3:17).

² tn Grk “eating and drinking the things from them” (an idiom for what the people in the house provide the guests).

² tn These verbs (“eating… drinking… marrying… being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.

² tn Or “and ate with.” It was table fellowship and the possibility of eating unclean food that disturbed them.

² tn The idea of eating “your fill” is evident in the context with the use of χορτάζω (cortazw) in v. 21.

² sn G. J. Wenham (Genesis [WBC], 1:34) points out that there is nothing in the passage that prohibits the man and the woman from eating meat. He suggests that eating meat came after the fall. Gen 9:3 may then ratify the postfall practice of eating meat rather than inaugurate the practice, as is often understood.

³ sn That the Egyptians found eating with foreigners disgusting is well-attested in extra-biblical literature by writers like Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo.

¹ sn This ruling was to prevent their eating it just softened by the fire or partially roasted as differing customs might prescribe or allow.