Kejadian 20:15

20:15 Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.” ¹ 

Keluaran 32:32

32:32 But now, if you will forgive their sin…, ²  but if not, wipe me out ³  from your book that you have written.” ⁴ 

Ulangan 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ⁵  will rage ⁶  against that man; all the curses ⁷  written in this scroll will fall upon him ⁸  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ⁹ 

Daniel 12:1

12:1 “At that time Michael,

the great prince who watches over your people, ¹⁰ 

will arise. ¹¹ 

There will be a time of distress

unlike any other from the nation’s beginning ¹² 

up to that time.

But at that time your own people,

all those whose names are ¹³  found written in the book,

will escape.

Maleakhi 3:16

3:16 Then those who respected ¹⁴  the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. ¹⁵  A scroll ¹⁶  was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name.

Lukas 10:20

10:20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice that ¹⁷  the spirits submit to you, but rejoice ¹⁸  that your names stand written ¹⁹  in heaven.”

Lukas 3:5

3:5 Every valley will be filled, ²⁰ 

and every mountain and hill will be brought low,

and the crooked will be made straight,

and the rough ways will be made smooth,

[20:15]  ¹ tn Heb “In the [place that is] good in your eyes live!”

[32:32]  ² tn The apodosis is not expressed; it would be understood as “good.” It is not stated because of the intensity of the expression (the figure is aposiopesis, a sudden silence). It is also possible to take this first clause as a desire and not a conditional clause, rendering it “Oh that you would forgive!”

[32:32]  ³ tn The word “wipe” is a figure of speech indicating “remove me” (meaning he wants to die). The translation “blot” is traditional, but not very satisfactory, since it does not convey complete removal.

[32:32]  ⁴ sn The book that is referred to here should not be interpreted as the NT “book of life” which is portrayed (figuratively) as a register of all the names of the saints who are redeemed and will inherit eternal life. Here it refers to the names of those who are living and serving in this life, whose names, it was imagined, were on the roster in the heavenly courts as belonging to the chosen. Moses would rather die than live if these people are not forgiven (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 356).

[29:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

[29:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

[29:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

[29:20]  ⁸ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

[29:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

[12:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stands over the sons of your people.”

[12:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will stand up.”

[12:1]  ¹² tn Or “from the beginning of a nation.”

[12:1]  ¹³ tn The words “whose names are” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

[3:16]  ¹⁴ tn Or “fear” (so NAB); NRSV “revered”; NCV “honored.”

[3:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “heard and listened”; NAB “listened attentively.”

[3:16]  ¹⁶ sn The scroll mentioned here is a “memory book” (סֵפֶר זִכָּרוֹן, sefer zikkaron) in which the Lord keeps an ongoing record of the names of all the redeemed (see Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Dan 12:1; Rev 20:12-15).

[10:20]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “do not rejoice in this, that.” This is awkward in contemporary English and has been simplified to “do not rejoice that.”

[10:20]  ¹⁸ tn The verb here is a present imperative, so the call is to an attitude of rejoicing.

[10:20]  ¹⁹ tn The verb here, a perfect tense, stresses a present reality of that which was a completed action, that is, their names were etched in the heavenly stone, as it were.

[3:5]  ²⁰ sn The figurative language of this verse speaks of the whole creation preparing for the arrival of a major figure, so all obstacles to his approach are removed.