translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “and full of years.”


text: Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “and their number by their heads, by men, was 38,000.”


text: The words “David said” are supplied here in the translation for clarification. The appearance of the first person verb “I supplied” in v. 5 indicates that David is speaking here.


text: Heb “made to [or “for”] praise.”


label: NET textual note

text: The MT reads “Zina” here and “Zizah” in v. 11 . One Hebrew ms , the LXX, and the Vulgate, harmonizing the form of the name to that found in v. 11 , read “Zizah” here.


text: Heb “and Aaron was set apart to consecrate it, the most holy things, he and his sons, permanently, to sacrifice before the Lord , to serve him, and to bless his name permanently.”


text: Heb “and Moses the man of God, his sons were called to the tribe of Levi.”


text: The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one name appears after this. The attached phrase “the oldest” might indicate that Shebuel was not Gershom’s only son, but note v. 17 .


text: The LXX reads Σουβαηλ ( Soubahl ) here, a reading followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, CEV (“Shubael”); cf. 24:20 .


text: The Hebrew text has “the sons of Eliezer were,” but only one name appears after this in the verse, and we are specifically told that Eliezer had no other sons.


text: The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one name appears after this. The attached phrase “the oldest” might indicate that Shelomith was not Izhar’s only son, but note v. 17 .


text: Heb “the sons of Kish, their brothers [i.e., relatives/cousins] lifted them up.” For other uses of נָאָשׂ ( na ’ as , “lift up”) in the sense of “marry,” see BDB 671 s.v. Qal.3.d.


text: Heb “these were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, according to their numberings, by number of names, according to their heads, doer[s] of the work for the service of the house of the Lord , from a son of twenty years and upwards.”


text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Heb “for by the final words of David, they were the number of the sons of Levi, from a son of twenty years and upward.”


text: Heb “For their assignment was at the hand of the sons of Aaron for the work of the house of the Lord concerning the courtyards and concerning the rooms and concerning the purification of all holiness and the work of the service of the house of God.”


text: Heb “with respect to.”


text: The Hebrew terms מְשׂוּרָה ( mÿsurah ) and מִדָּה ( middah ) refer to different types of measurements.


text: Heb “and to stand.”


text: Heb “by number according to the manner upon them, regularly before the Lord .”


text: Heb “and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the Lord .”