Proverbs 1
…The Hebrew is poetry — every line a couplet, the second half echoing, sharpening, or countering the first (this translation sets…
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Exodus 24
…own last meal The people swear twice, and the second oath adds one word the first did not have. At…
Genesis 12
…the ancient reading tradition marks here what modern readers also feel, that the book's true second act starts with…
Zephaniah — Introduction
…Zephaniah's geography is intimately local (the Fish Gate, the Second Quarter, the Mortar market) even as his theology is…
Genesis 6
…Put the ark's door in its side, and build it with lower, second, and third decks.note 17 ו…
Joshua 12
…Ve'elleh malkhei ha-arets asher hikku…, ‘now these are the kings of the land whom… struck’, opens this section…
Isaiah 40
…surely the people is grass.note La hierba se seca, y la flor se marchita, cuando el aliento de Jehová…
Joshua 3
…estuvieron firmes sobre tierra seca en medio del Jordán, mientras todo Israel cruzaba sobre tierra seca, hasta que toda la…
Joshua 17
…a second time to collect, word for word, what Numbers 27 already ruled ★★★ This verse is the second and last…
Habakkuk — Introduction
…Which triggers the harder, second complaint, the theodicy problem stated as cleanly as it ever has been: “you are of…
