Imamat 23:30

23:30 As for any person ¹  who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate ²  that person from the midst of his people! ³ 

Mazmur 69:28

69:28 May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! ⁴ 

Do not let their names be listed with the godly! ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 18:4

18:4 Indeed! All lives are mine – the life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The one ⁶  who sins will die.

[23:30]  ¹ tn Heb “And any person.”

[23:30]  ² tn See HALOT 3 s.v. I אבד hif. Cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “destroy”; CEV “wipe out.”

[23:30]  ³ tn Heb “its people” (“its” is feminine to agree with “person,” literally “soul,” which is feminine in Hebrew; cf. v. 29).

[69:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “let them be wiped out of the scroll of the living.”

[69:28]  sn The phrase the scroll of the living occurs only here in the OT. It pictures a scroll or census list containing the names of the citizens of a community. When an individual died, that person’s name was removed from the list. So this curse is a very vivid way of asking that the enemies die.

[69:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “and with the godly let them not be written.”

[69:28]  sn Do not let their names be listed with the godly. This curse pictures a scroll in which God records the names of his loyal followers. The psalmist makes the point that his enemies have no right to be included in this list of the godly.

[18:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “life.”