translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: NUM

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “hand.”


text: Heb “their goings out.”


text: Heb “mouth.”


text: Heb “morrow.”


text: Heb “with a high hand”; the expression means “defiantly; boldly” or “with confidence.” The phrase is usually used for arrogant sin and pride, the defiant fist, as it were. The image of the high hand can also mean the hand raised to deliver the blow ( Job 38:15 ).


text: Heb “in the eyes.”


label: NET textual note

text: So many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, Smr, Syriac, and Latin Vulgate. Other witnesses have “from before Hahiroth.”


text: Iim is a shortened form of the name Iye-abarim mentioned in v. 44 .


text: The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.


text: For the location of Jericho see Map5-B2 ; Map6-E1 ; Map7-E1 ; Map8-E3 ; Map10-A2 ; Map11-A1 .


text: The Hebrew text repeats the verb “you will destroy.”


text: Heb “of your fathers.”