translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: NEH

label: NET translator note

text: The words “were the following names” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity. Cf. vv. 9, 10, 14 .


label: NET textual note

text: With many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and the ancient versions the translation reads יְשׁוּעַ ( yÿshua ’, “Jeshua”) rather than the reading וְיֵשׁוּעַ ( vÿyeshua ’, “and Jeshua”) of BHS .


text: Heb “brothers” (also in v. 30 ).


text: Heb “heads”; ASV “chiefs.”


text: Heb “from the peoples of the lands.” Cf. vv. 30, 31 .


text: Heb “the nobles.”


text: The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”


text: Heb “to walk in.”


text: Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5 .


text: The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’ adonay ).


text: Heb “take.”


text: Heb “debt of every hand,” an idiom referring to the hand that holds legally binding contractual agreements.


text: Heb “cause to stand on us.”


text: The MT reads “to give upon us.” However, the term עָלֵינוּ (’ alenu , “upon us”) should probably be deleted, following a few medieval Hebrew MSS , the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate.


text: Heb “house” (also in vv. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 ).


text: Heb “the house of our fathers.”


text: The words “we accept responsibility” are not included in the Hebrew text, but are inferred from v. 33 (so also in v. 37 ).


text: Heb “a tithe of our land.”


text: Heb “of our work.”


text: Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”