In the notes to the books of the Old Testament, the following abbreviations are used:
| Ant. | Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews | |
| Aram | Aramaic | |
| Ch(s) | Chapter(s) | |
| Cn | Correction; made where the text has suffered in transmission and the versions provide no satisfactory restoration, but where the Standard Bible Committee agrees with the judgment of competent scholars as to the most probable reconstruction of the original text. | |
| Gk | Septuagint; Greek version of the Old Testament | |
| Heb | Hebrew of the consonantal Masoretic Text of the Old Testament | |
| Josephus | Flavius Josephus (Jewish historian, about A.D. 37 to about 95) | |
| Macc. | The book(s) of the Maccabees | |
| Ms(s) | Manuscript(s) | |
| MT | The Hebrew of the pointed Masoretic text of the Old Testament | |
| OL | Old Latin | |
| Q Ms(s) | Manuscript(s) found at Qumran by the Dead Sea | |
| Sam | Samaritan Hebrew text of the Old Testament | |
| Syr | Syriac Version of the Old Testament | |
| Syr H | Syriac Version of Origen’s Hexapla | |
| Tg | Targum | |
| Vg | Vulgate; Latin Version of the Old Testament |
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