diff --git a/translate/bita-humanbehavior/01.md b/translate/bita-humanbehavior/01.md index a8c456a..b362d06 100644 --- a/translate/bita-humanbehavior/01.md +++ b/translate/bita-humanbehavior/01.md @@ -14,10 +14,8 @@ Some images from the Bible involving human behavior are listed below. The word i >There you will be rescued. >There Yahweh will rescue you from the hand of your enemies. (Micah 4:10 ULB) - >For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. But all these things are only the beginning of birth pains. (Matthew 24:7-8 ULB) - >My little children, again I am in the pains of childbirth for you until Christ is formed in you. (Galatians 4:19 ULB) @@ -39,73 +37,56 @@ This is because he actually is the Son of the Most High. This is because he actually is the Son of God. ->Every male that opens the womb will be called dedicated to the Lord. (Luke 2:23 ULB) - -This is because he actually will be dedicated to the Lord. - - #### CLEANLINESS represents being acceptable for God's purposes >Noah built an altar to Yahweh. He took some of the clean animals and some of the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (Genesis 8:20 ULB) >The priest will examine him again on the seventh day to see if the disease is better and has not spread farther in the skin. If it has not, then the priest will pronounce him clean. It is a rash. He must wash his clothes, and then he is clean. (Leviticus 13:6 ULB) - #### CLEANSING or PURIFYING represents making something acceptable for God's Purposes >He must go out to the altar.... He must sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and set it apart to Yahweh, away from the unclean actions of the people of Israel. (Leviticus 16:18-19 ULB) - >This is because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you from all your sins so you will be clean before Yahweh. (Leviticus 16:30 ULB) - #### UNCLEANLINESS represents not being acceptable for God's purposes >You may eat any animal that has a split hoof and that also chews the cud. However, some animals either chew the cud or have a split hoof, and you must not eat them, animals such as the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have a split hoof. So the camel is unclean to you. (Leviticus 11:3-4 ULB) - >If any of them dies and falls on anything, that thing will be unclean, whether it is made of wood, cloth, leather, or sackcloth. Whatever it is and whatever it is used for, it must be put into water; it will be unclean until evening. Then it will be clean. (Leviticus 11:32 ULB) - #### MAKING SOMETHING UNCLEAN represents making it unacceptable for God's purposes. >Or if anyone touches anything God has designated as unclean, whether it be the carcass of an unclean wild animal or the carcass of any unclean livestock or unclean creatures that move along the ground, even though he was not aware of what he had done, he has become unclean and is guilty. (Leviticus 5:2 ULB) - - #### BEING CUT OFF FROM SOMETHING represents being separated from it >Uzziah, the king, was a leper to the day of his death and lived in a separate house since he was a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh. (2 Chronicles 26:21 ULB) - #### BEING CUT OFF represents being killed >So you must keep the Sabbath, for it must be treated by you as holy, reserved for him. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death. Whoever works on the Sabbath, that person must surely be cut off from his people. (Exodus 31:14-15 ULB) - >Whoever does not humble himself on that day must be cut off from his people. Whoever does any work on that day, I, Yahweh, will destroy him from among his people. (Leviticus 23:29-30 ULB) - >But he was cut off from the land of the living. (Isaiah 53:8 ULB) - #### COMING AND STANDING BEFORE SOMEONE represents serving him >How blessed are your wives, and how blessed are your servants who constantly stand before you, because they hear your wisdom. (1 Kings 10:8 ULB) >Steadfast love and faithfulness come before you. (Psalm 89:14 ULB) -Covenant faithfulness and trustworthiness are also personified here. (see [Personification](../figs-personification/01.md)) +Steadfast love and faithfulness are also personified here. (see [Personification](../figs-personification/01.md)) +#### DRUNKENNESS represents suffering, and WINE represents judgment -#### DRUNKENNESS represents suffering and WINE represents judgment +Too much wine makes a person weak, and he staggers. So too, when God judges people, they become weak and stagger. So the idea of wine is used to represent God's judgment. -Too much wine makes a person weak and he staggers. So too, when God judges people, they become weak and stagger. So the idea of wine is used to represent God's judgment. - ->You have shown your people severe things; +>You have made your people see difficult things; >you have made us drink the wine of staggering. (Psalm 60:3 ULB) -Another example from Psalm. +Another example from Psalms. >But God is the judge; >he brings down and he lifts up. >For Yahweh holds in his hand a cup of foaming wine, @@ -115,7 +96,6 @@ Another example from Psalm. An example from Revelation. >... he will also drink some of the wine of God's wrath, the wine that has been poured undiluted into the cup of his anger. (Revelation 14:10 ULB) - #### EATING UP represents destroying >God will bring [Israel] out of Egypt. @@ -124,7 +104,6 @@ An example from Revelation. >He will break their bones to pieces. >He will shoot them with his arrows. (Numbers 24:8 ULB) - Another word for "eat up" is devour. >Therefore as the tongue of fire devours stubble, and as the dry grass goes down in flame, >so their root will rot, and their blossom will blow away like dust. (Isaiah 5:24 ULB) @@ -140,46 +119,40 @@ An example from Deuteronomy. >with the blood of the killed and the captives, >and from the heads of the leaders of the enemy. (Deuteronomy 32:42 ULB) - #### FALLING UPON or BEING UPON represents affecting >Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, so the man slept. (Genesis 2:21 ULB) +>Will not his majesty terrify you, +>and the dread of him fall upon you? (Job 13:11 ULB) ->Would not his majesty make you afraid? ->Would not his dread fall upon you? (Job 13:11 ULB) - - ->Then the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me and he said to me.... (Ezekiel 11:5 ULB) +>Then the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me and he said for me to say ... (Ezekiel 11:5 ULB) >Now look, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will become blind. (Acts 13:11 ULB) - #### FOLLOWING SOMEONE represents being loyal to him ->They broke away from Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, the very gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them. They provoked Yahweh to anger because they broke away from Yahweh and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths. - - ->For Solomon followed Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and he followed Milcom, the disgusting idol of the Ammonites. (1 Kings 11:5 ULB) +>They broke away from Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, the very gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them. They provoked Yahweh to anger because they broke away from Yahweh and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths. (Judges 2:12-13 ULB) +>For Solomon followed Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and he followed Molech, the disgusting idol of the Ammonites. (1 Kings 11:5 ULB) >Not one of them who despised me will see it, except for my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit. He has followed me fully; I will bring him into the land which he went to examine. His descendants will possess it. (Numbers 14:23-24 ULB) - #### GOING BEFORE, ACCOMPANYING, OR FOLLOWING A KING WITH HIS OTHER ATTENDANTS represents serving him >See, his reward is with him, and his recompense is going before him. (Isaiah 62:11 ULB) - >Righteousness will go before him and make a way for his footsteps. (Psalm 85:13 ULB) + Rewared, recompense, and righteousness are also personified here. (see [Personification](../figs-personification/01.md)) + #### INHERITING is permanently possessing something >Then the King will say to those on his right hand, "Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." (Matthew 25:34) The blessing of God's complete rule is given as the permanent possession to those to whom the King is speaking. ->Now this I say, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Neither does what is perishable inherit what is imperishable. (1 Corinthians 15:50 ULB) +>Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Neither does what is perishable inherit what is imperishable. (1 Corinthians 15:50 ULB) People cannot receive the kingdom of God in its complete form as a permanent possession while they are still in their mortal bodies. @@ -193,33 +166,30 @@ The mountain where God will be worshiped is viewed as his permanent possession. Moses asks God to still accept the people of Israel as his special possession, that is, as the people permanently belonging to him. ->the richness of the glory of his inheritance among those who are set apart for him. (Ephesians 1:18 ULB) +>... the richness of his glorious inheritance among all God's holy people. (Ephesians 1:18 ULB) The wonderful things that God will give all who are set apart for him is viewed as their permanent possession. An **HEIR** is someone who permanently possesses something ->For it was not through the law that the promise was given to Abraham and to his descendants, this promise that they would be heirs of the world. (Romans 4:13 ULB) +>For the promise to Abraham and to his descendants that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. (Romans 4:13 ULB) The promise was that Abraham and his descendants would permanently possess the entire world. ->God has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed to be the heir of all things. (Hebrews 1:2 ULB) +>... he has spoken to us through a Son, whom he appointed to be the heir of all things. (Hebrews 1:2 ULB) God's Son will receive all things as a permanent possession. ->It was by faith that Noah...condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes through faith. (Hebrews 11:7 ULB) +>It was by faith that Noah...condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith. (Hebrews 11:7 ULB) Noah received righteousness as a permanent possession. - #### LYING DOWN represents DYING >When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up a descendant after you, (2 Samuel 7:12 ULB) - ->Ask them, 'Are you really more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and lie with the uncircumcised!' ->They will fall among those who were killed by the sword! Egypt is given to the sword; her enemies will seize her and her servants! (Ezekiel 32:19-20 ULB) - +>[Ask them,] 'Are you really more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and lie down with the uncircumcised!' +>They will fall among those who were killed by the sword! [Egypt] is given to the sword; [her enemies] will seize her and her multitudes! (Ezekiel 32:19-20 ULB) #### REIGNING OR RULING represents controlling