translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: GAL

label: NET study note

text: A quotation from Gen 15:6 .


text: A quotation from Gen 12:3; 18:18 .


text: A quotation from Lev 18:5 . The phrase the works of the law is an editorial expansion on the Greek text (see previous note); it has been left as normal typeface to indicate it is not part of the OT text.


text: A quotation from Deut 21:23 . By figurative extension the Greek word translated tree ( ζύλον , zulon ) can also be used to refer to a cross (L&N 6.28), the Roman instrument of execution.