Imamat 20:10

20:10 If a man ¹  commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, ²  both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

Mazmur 79:3

79:3 They have made their blood flow like water

all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them. ³ 

Mazmur 79:5

79:5 How long will this go on, O Lord? ⁴ 

Will you stay angry forever?

How long will your rage ⁵  burn like fire?

Yehezkiel 23:25

23:25 I will direct ⁶  my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, ⁷  and your survivors will die ⁸  by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

Zefanya 1:17

1:17 I will bring distress on the people ⁹ 

and they will stumble ¹⁰  like blind men,

for they have sinned against the Lord.

Their blood will be poured out like dirt;

their flesh ¹¹  will be scattered ¹²  like manure.

[20:10]  ¹ tn Heb “And a man who.” The syntax here and at the beginning of the following verses elliptically mirrors that of v. 9, which justifies the rendering as a conditional clause.

[20:10]  ² tc The reading of the LXX minuscule mss has been followed here (see the BHS footnote a-a). The MT has a dittography, repeating “a man who commits adultery with the wife of” (see the explanation in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 328). The duplication found in the MT is reflected in some English versions, e.g., KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV.

[79:3]  ³ tn Heb “they have poured out their blood like water, all around Jerusalem, and there is no one burying.”

[79:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “How long, O Lord?”

[79:5]  ⁵ tn Or “jealous anger.”

[23:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “give.”

[23:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “they will remove.”

[23:25]  sn This method of punishment is attested among ancient Egyptian and Hittite civilizations. See W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:489.

[23:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “fall.”

[1:17]  ⁹ tn “The people” refers to mankind in general (see vv. 2-3) or more specifically to the residents of Judah (see vv. 4-13).

[1:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “walk.”

[1:17]  ¹¹ tn Some take the referent of “flesh” to be more specific here; cf. NEB (“bowels”), NAB (“brains”), NIV (“entrails”).

[1:17]  ¹² tn The words “will be scattered” are supplied in the translation for clarity based on the parallelism with “will be poured out” in the previous line.