¹tn Heb “ears.”

²tn The Hebrew verb is passive.

³tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.

⁴tc The translation reads the plural rather than the singular of the MT.

⁵tn Heb “giving.”

⁶tn Heb “and I stood them on their standing.”

⁷tc Probably one should read with the Lucianic Greek recension, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate hWxaw (wa’asawweh, “and I commanded”) rather than the rare denominative verb hrxoaw (wa’oserah, “and I appointed over the storeroom”) of the MT.

⁸tn Heb “be over”

⁹tn Heb “on their hand.”

¹⁰tn Heb “brothers.”

¹¹tn Heb “your fathers.”

¹²tn Heb “shades of evening.”

¹³tn Heb “said” (so also in v. 22).

¹⁴tn Heb “caused to stand.”

¹⁵tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”

¹⁶sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted.

¹⁷tn Heb “people and people.”

¹⁸tn Heb “give.”

¹⁹tn Heb “gave.”

²⁰tc One medieval Hebrew ms, the Lucianic Greek recension, and the Syriac Peshitta read the plural <ynhKh (“the priests”) rather than the singular reading of the MT, hnhKh (“the priesthood”).

²¹tn Heb “a man to his work.”

²²tn The words “I also provided for” are not included in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.