translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “field.”


label: NET textual note

text: The LXX adds “and their land swarmed with mice.”


text: The LXX and a Qumran ms add “the covenant of the Lord .”


text: Heb “your mice.” A Qumran ms has simply “the mice.”


text: Heb “Perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.”


text: Heb “like Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their heart.”


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


text: Heb “and they sent them away and they went.”


text: Heb “and the men did so.”


text: A few Hebrew mss and the LXX read “villages; the large rock…[is witness] until this very day.”


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


text: The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew mss lack “50,000,” reading simply “70” instead. However, there does not seem to be sufficient external evidence to warrant reading 70 rather than 50,070, although that is done by a number of recent translations (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). The present translation (reluctantly) follows the MT and the ancient versions here.


text: Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the Lord himself.