diff --git a/lev/19/09.md b/lev/19/09.md index 95f9df133e..c97ee70dca 100644 --- a/lev/19/09.md +++ b/lev/19/09.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "When you gather your crops, do not gather all the way to the edges of your fields" -# neither will you gather all the produce of your harvest +# neither will you gather all the gleanings of your harvest This refers to the practice of going back over the fields a second time to gather any produce that remained after the first time. The full meaning of this statement can be made explicit. Alternate translation: "and do not go back and pick up all that you left behind" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]]) diff --git a/lev/19/11.md b/lev/19/11.md index e910921b6f..d778b3d918 100644 --- a/lev/19/11.md +++ b/lev/19/11.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Their blood is upon them +# General Information: -The word "blood" here is a metonym for the guilt of putting someone to a violent death. See how you translated similar words in [Leviticus 19:9](../19/09.md). Alternate translation: "the guilt for their violent death is theirs alone" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) +This page has intentionally been left blank. diff --git a/lev/19/15.md b/lev/19/15.md index 2bd179b0f7..0cbb4db604 100644 --- a/lev/19/15.md +++ b/lev/19/15.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This double negative is used for emphasis. It can be expressed in a positive way The words "poor" and "important" are two extremes, which together mean "anyone." You can translate this to clarify the terms. Alternate translation: "You must not show favoritism to anyone based on how much money they have" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-merism]]) -# judge your neighbor righteously +# judge your neighbor justly "judge everyone according to what is right" diff --git a/lev/19/35.md b/lev/19/35.md index 06f26f2c75..d778b3d918 100644 --- a/lev/19/35.md +++ b/lev/19/35.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Do not use false measures +# General Information: -This prohibits the practice of intentionally using instruments that give inaccurate readings when measuring things. +This page has intentionally been left blank. diff --git a/lev/20/11.md b/lev/20/11.md index b02310a24b..a356ac3f59 100644 --- a/lev/20/11.md +++ b/lev/20/11.md @@ -6,3 +6,7 @@ This is a polite way of saying that he has sexual relations with his father's wi Here the idiom "uncovers ... nakedness" means "disgraces." See how you translated this idiom in [Leviticus 18:7](../18/07.md). Alternate translation: "he disgraces his father" or "he shames his father" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]]) +# Their blood is upon them + +The word "blood" here is a metonym for the guilt of putting someone to a violent death. See how you translated similar words in [Leviticus 19:9](../19/09.md). Alternate translation: "the guilt for their violent death is theirs alone" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) + diff --git a/lev/21/07.md b/lev/21/07.md index 83547462bf..fb5f94b0bc 100644 --- a/lev/21/07.md +++ b/lev/21/07.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "The priests must not" -# for they are holy +# he is holy -or "for they are to be set apart" +The understood subject is any priest. Alternate translation: "they are holy" or "all priests are holy" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-genericnoun]]) diff --git a/lev/22/04.md b/lev/22/04.md index 0cf743a3f9..543f66fa68 100644 --- a/lev/22/04.md +++ b/lev/22/04.md @@ -1,7 +1,3 @@ -# infectious skin disease - -a disease on the skin easily spread from one person to another - # an infection flowing from his body "a bodily discharge" diff --git a/lev/25/32.md b/lev/25/32.md index 26f5b80b5e..c87361aea5 100644 --- a/lev/25/32.md +++ b/lev/25/32.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# the houses owned by the Levites in their cities +# the houses owned by the Levites in the cities they possess This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "the houses that the Levites own in their cities" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]]) diff --git a/lev/25/36.md b/lev/25/36.md index 24366b8a3f..af19f26a2f 100644 --- a/lev/25/36.md +++ b/lev/25/36.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Do not charge him interest +# Do not take from him interest or usury -"Do not make him pay you back more than what you lend him" +The words "interest" and "usury" both refer to a lender requiring more from the borrower than he originally lent. Alternate translation: "Do not require him to pay back any more than you lent him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-doublet]]) diff --git a/lev/25/53.md b/lev/25/53.md index 97aa8c2dad..8e28872436 100644 --- a/lev/25/53.md +++ b/lev/25/53.md @@ -1,8 +1,4 @@ -# He is to be treated +# rule over him severely -This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "The foreigner who bought him as a slave must treat him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]]) - -# he is not treated with harshness - -This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "no one treats him badly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]]) +"rule over him in a way that harms him" or "treat him badly" diff --git a/lev/26/16.md b/lev/26/16.md index 88a2052729..51022836cb 100644 --- a/lev/26/16.md +++ b/lev/26/16.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Here "terror" represents the things that will cause them to be terrified. Altern "will slowly take away your life" or "will slowly make you die." It is the diseases and the fever that will do this. -# You will plant your seeds for nothing +# You will plant your seeds in vain -The phrase "for nothing" means that they would get nothing from their work. Alternate translation: "You will plant your seeds in vain" or "You will plant your seeds, but you will not get anything from them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]]) +The phrase "in vain" means that they would get nothing from their work. Alternate translation: "You will plant your seeds, but you will not get anything from them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]]) diff --git a/lev/26/20.md b/lev/26/20.md index 4fe40db4fb..17dc7bfea0 100644 --- a/lev/26/20.md +++ b/lev/26/20.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Your strength will be used up for nothing +# Your strength will be used up in vain -Working very hard is spoken of as if they were to use all their strength until they had no more strength. The phrase "for nothing" means that they would get nothing from working so hard. Alternate translation: "You will work very hard in vain" or "You will work very hard, but you will not receive anything good from working so hard" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]]) +Working very hard is spoken of as if they were to use all their strength until they had no more strength. The phrase "in vain" means that they would get nothing from working so hard. Alternate translation: "You will work very hard in vain" or "You will work very hard, but you will not receive anything good from working so hard" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]]) diff --git a/lev/26/22.md b/lev/26/22.md index 3613bab220..e0e89cc341 100644 --- a/lev/26/22.md +++ b/lev/26/22.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Stealing is a euphemism or metaphor for killing. Alternate translation: "which will kill your children" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-euphemism]] or [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) -# your roads will be deserted +# your roads will be desolate "no one will travel on your roads" diff --git a/lev/26/26.md b/lev/26/26.md index 60f4ee5bd3..1c72655fc6 100644 --- a/lev/26/26.md +++ b/lev/26/26.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# When I cut off your food supply +# When I cut off your staff of food -Destroying the food that people have stored or stopping people from being able to get it is spoken of as cutting off the supply of food. Alternate translation: "When I destroy the food you have stored" or "When I stop you from being able to get food" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) +The word "staff" here refers to the staff a weak person leans on as he walks and is a metaphor for something that people rely on for life. Breaking this staff is a metaphor for destroying the food supply, either by destroying the crops in the fields or stopping the people from trading. Alternate translation: "When I stop you from being able to get food" or "When I make it impossible for you to get the food you depend on" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) # ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven diff --git a/lev/26/31.md b/lev/26/31.md index 23d31b46d8..ad070d40b8 100644 --- a/lev/26/31.md +++ b/lev/26/31.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -# I will turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sanctuaries +# I will turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sacred places -Because God would send armies to do these things, he speaks as if he would do them. Alternate translation: "I will send enemy armies to turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sanctuaries" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) +Because God would send armies to do these things, he speaks as if he would do them. Alternate translation: "I will send enemy armies to turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sacred places" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) -# your sanctuaries +# your sacred places These were places where people worshiped idols instead of God. diff --git a/lev/26/33.md b/lev/26/33.md index fd1c1cfeea..979f968b08 100644 --- a/lev/26/33.md +++ b/lev/26/33.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This represents sending armies to attack them. Alternate translation: "I will send enemy armies to attack you" or "I will send enemy armies to attack you with their swords" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) -# Your land will be abandoned, and your cities will be ruined +# Your land will be devastated, and your cities will be ruined -This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "You will abandon your land, and your enemies will destroy your cities" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]]) +This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "Your enemies will devastate your land and destroy your cities" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]]) diff --git a/lev/26/39.md b/lev/26/39.md index 25d04b7a64..9edbf265d3 100644 --- a/lev/26/39.md +++ b/lev/26/39.md @@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ "Those of you who do not die" -# waste away in their sins +# waste away in their iniquity Wasting away in their sins represents wasting away because of their sins. -# their fathers' sins +# their fathers' iniquities Here "their fathers" represents their ancestors. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) diff --git a/lev/26/40.md b/lev/26/40.md index 28c8a6fac2..9deded105c 100644 --- a/lev/26/40.md +++ b/lev/26/40.md @@ -1,8 +1,4 @@ -# their fathers' sin +# their fathers' iniquity The word "fathers" represents their ancestors. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) -# their treason by which they were unfaithful to me - -"the way that they were unfaithful to me and tuned against me after I had been so good to them" - diff --git a/lev/27/11.md b/lev/27/11.md index 48553565b7..f2f2631100 100644 --- a/lev/27/11.md +++ b/lev/27/11.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# is in fact unclean, so that Yahweh will not accept it +# is an unclean animal that people cannot give as an offering to Yahweh -If Yahweh will not accept a certain animal as an offering, the animal is spoken of as if it were physically dirty. It may be unclean because it is a certain kind of animal or because it has a defect. Alternate translation: "is in fact one that Yahweh will not accept" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) +If Yahweh will not accept a certain animal as an offering, the animal is spoken of as if it were physically dirty. It may be unclean because it is a certain kind of animal or because it has a defect. Alternate translation: "is in fact one that Yahweh will not accept because it is unclean" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) diff --git a/lev/27/24.md b/lev/27/24.md index 7dbe70de9d..17f2b61333 100644 --- a/lev/27/24.md +++ b/lev/27/24.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# the man from whom it was bought ... the land's owner +# the man from whom it was bought ... the one whose property the land is These two phases refer to the same person. Normally the land would be bought from its owner. diff --git a/psa/055/009.md b/psa/055/009.md index 72af778e0c..a26eeef68c 100644 --- a/psa/055/009.md +++ b/psa/055/009.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -# Devour them +# Destroy, Lord -Destroying something is spoken of as eating all of it. Possible meanings are "Destroy my enemies' plans" or "Destroy my enemies." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) +Possible meanings are "Destroy my enemies, Lord" or "Destroy my enemies." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]]) -# confuse their language +# divide their tongue -"Language" here represents what the people were saying to each other, and probably refers specifically to them talking about plans to do evil. Confusing it represents making the people unable to understand each other. Alternate translation: "confuse them when they speak to each other" or "confuse their plans" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) +The word "tongue" here represents what the people were saying to each other, and probably refers specifically to them talking about plans to do evil. To "divide" it is to make the people unable to understand each other. Alternate translation: "confuse them when they speak to each other" or "confuse their plans" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])