translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZR

label: NET translator note

text: The words “came up from Babylon” do not appear in the Hebrew text until v. 6 . They have been supplied here for the sake of clarity.


label: NET textual note

text: The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּעֲל ( vayya ’ al , “he [Ezra] brought up”) rather than the Qal plural וַיַּעַלוּ ( vayya ’ alu , “they came up”) of the MT. tn Heb “he brought”; the referent (Ezra) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


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


text: The translation reads יִסַּד ( yissad , “he appointed” [= determined]) rather than the reading יְסֻד ( yÿsud , “foundation”) of the MT. (The words “to make” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.)


text: Heb “established his heart.”


text: Heb “to do and to teach.” The expression may be a hendiadys, in which case it would have the sense of “effectively teaching.”


text: Heb “this.”


text: Heb “the priest, the scribe.” So also in v. 21 .


text: The words “Ezra was” are not in the Hebrew text but have been added in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “from me is placed a decree.” So also in v. 21 .


text: Aram “sent.”


text: Aram “in your hand.”


text: Aram “find.”


text: Aram “their meal offerings and their libations.”


text: Aram “brothers.”


text: Or “before.”


text: Aram “may fall to you to give.”


text: Aram “who are in.”


text: The translation reads מְשַׁח בַּתִּין ( mÿshakh battin ) rather than מְשַׁח בַּתִּין ( battin mÿshakh ) of the MT.


text: Aram “he did not write.”


text: The Aramaic word used here for “wrath” ( קְצַף , qÿtsaf ; cf. Heb קָצַף , qatsaf ) is usually used in the Hebrew Bible for God’s anger as opposed to human anger (but contra Eccl 5:17 [ MT 5:16 ]; Esth 1:18 ; 2 Kgs 3:27 ). The fact that this word is used in v. 23 may have theological significance, pointing to the possibility of divine judgment if the responsible parties should fail to make available these provisions for the temple.


text: Aram “we are making known to you.”


text: For the MT reading שָׁפְטִין ( shoftim , “judges”) the LXX uses the noun γραμματεῖς ( grammatei" , “scribes”).


text: On the meaning of this word see HALOT 1820-21 s.v. אָסְפַּרְנָא ; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae , 14.