Kejadian 18:8

18:8 Abraham ¹  then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food ²  before them. They ate while ³  he was standing near them under a tree.

Yudas 1:25

1:25 to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.

Yudas 1:2

1:2 May mercy, peace, and love be lavished on you! ⁴ 

1 Samuel 17:29

17:29 David replied, “What have I done now? Can’t I say anything?” ⁵ 

Ayub 20:17

20:17 He will not look on the streams, ⁶ 

the rivers, which are the torrents ⁷ 

of honey and butter. ⁸ 

Yesaya 7:15

7:15 He will eat sour milk ⁹  and honey, which will help him know how ¹⁰  to reject evil and choose what is right.

Yesaya 7:22

7:22 From the abundance of milk they produce, ¹¹  he will have sour milk for his meals. Indeed, everyone left in the heart of the land will eat sour milk and honey.

[18:8]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:8]  ² tn The words “the food” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text the verb has no stated object.

[18:8]  ³ tn The disjunctive clause is a temporal circumstantial clause subordinate to the main verb.

[1:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “may mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.”

[17:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “Is it not [just] a word?”

[20:17]  ⁶ tn The word פְּלַגּוֹת (pÿlaggot) simply means “streams” or “channels.” Because the word is used elsewhere for “streams of oil” (cf. 29:6), and that makes a good parallelism here, some supply “oil” (cf. NAB, NLT). But the second colon of the verse is probably in apposition to the first. The verb “see” followed by the preposition bet, “to look on; to look over,” means “to enjoy as a possession,” an activity of the victor.

[20:17]  ⁷ tn The construct nouns here have caused a certain amount of revision. It says “rivers of, torrents of.” The first has been emended by Klostermann to יִצְהָר (yitshar, “oil”) and connected to the first colon. Older editors argued for a נָהָר (nahar) that meant “oil” but that was not convincing. On the other hand, there is support for having more than one construct together serving as apposition (see GKC 422 §130.e). If the word “streams” in the last colon is a construct, that would mean three of them; but that one need not be construct. The reading would be “He will not see the streams, [that is] the rivers [which are] the torrents of honey and butter.” It is unusual, but workable.

[20:17]  ⁸ sn This word is often translated “curds.” It is curdled milk, possibly a type of butter.

[7:15]  ⁹ tn Or, perhaps “cream,” frequently, “curds” (NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); KJV, ASV “butter”; CEV “yogurt.”

[7:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for his knowing.” Traditionally the preposition has been translated in a temporal sense, “when he knows.” However, though the preposition לְ (lamed) can sometimes have a temporal force, it never carries such a nuance in any of the 40 other passages where it is used with the infinitive construct of יָדַע (yada’, “to know”). Most often the construction indicates purpose/result. This sense is preferable here. The following context indicates that sour milk and honey will epitomize the devastation that God’s judgment will bring upon the land. Cultivated crops will be gone and the people will be forced to live off the milk produced by their goats and the honey they find in the thickets. As the child is forced to eat a steady diet of this sour milk and honey, he will be reminded of the consequences of sin and motivated to make correct moral decisions in order to avoid further outbreaks of divine discipline.

[7:22]  ¹¹ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated, see note on 2:2.