13 August 2022 draft-bible
2. on the day. This is just a bit more normal in English than in the day.
3. one hundred thirty years. Hebrew, thirty and a hundred year[s]. Different languages simply have different systems for how numbers of units are expressed. This translation will treat such differences simply as a stylistic issue, and will simply translate numbers into natural English without noting every case. This issue is filed under the entry Numerical Format in the appendix “Recurring Issues”.
3. begot. This is a handy one-word expression for a man’s becoming the father of a child. It does not seem to me that begot is so outdated that we must resort to circumlocutions like “became the father of” for the simple Hebrew verb yld. This issue will not be noted every time it appears; see under the word BEGET in the appendix “Recurring Words”.
3. named. Literally, called his name.
4. other. This word does not appear in the Hebrew text.
7, 10, 13. other. This word does not appear in the Hebrew text.
8, 11, 14. all the days of. A bit less wordy than WEB’s “All of the days of”.
13. and daughters (WEB). Some kind of punctuation is missing at the end of this verse.
14. In verses 8, 11, 17, and 20, the WEB omits ‘and’ and makes ‘All’ the beginning of the verse. Only in this verse it is inconsistent – without even punctuation, it just runs this verse on after the last, and retains the ‘and’.
16, 19**. _other.**_ As in 5:7.
17, 20. all the days of. As in 5:8.
22. after he begot Methuselah. Hebrew ʾaḥarei holido ʾet metušelaḥ, which is paraphrased by the WEB to “After Methuselah’s birth”.
22. more (WEB). As in 5:7 and several other verses (where the word in question is ‘other’), there is no Hebrew word in the sentence corresponding to ‘more’.
23. All the days of (WEB). This is inconsistent with the wording choice the WEB made (adding a second ‘of’) in verses 8, 11, 14, 17, and 20.
24. he was not. So reads the Hebrew. No word equivalent to ‘found’ (WEB) is in the Hebrew text. I do not know whether the Hebrew text intends to say that his body vanished when God took him, or whether in view of Enoch’s holiness ‘he was not’ is simply a euphemistic way of not mentioning his death directly.
26. other. As in 5:7.
29. named him. Literally, "called his name".
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