[2:5] 1 tn Heb “therefore you will not have one who strings out a measuring line by lot in the assembly of the
[2:5] sn No one will assign you land in the
[5:14] 2 tn Or “Asherah poles.”
[5:14] sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4). The
[5:14] 3 tn The MT reads “your cities,” but many emend the text to צִרֶיךָ (tsirekha, “your images”) or עֲצַבֶּיךָ (’atsbbekha, “your idols”).