Kejadian 24:60
Konteks24:60 They blessed Rebekah with these words: 1
“Our sister, may you become the mother 2 of thousands of ten thousands!
May your descendants possess the strongholds 3 of their enemies.”
Keluaran 39:43
Konteks39:43 Moses inspected 4 all the work – and 5 they had done it just as the Lord had commanded – they had done it exactly – and Moses blessed them. 6
[24:60] 1 tn Heb “and said to her.”
[24:60] 2 tn Heb “become thousands of ten thousands.”
[24:60] sn May you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands. The blessing expresses their prayer that she produce children and start a family line that will greatly increase (cf. Gen 17:16).
[24:60] 3 tn Heb “gate,” which here stands for a walled city. In an ancient Near Eastern city the gate complex was the main area of defense (hence the translation “stronghold”). A similar phrase occurs in Gen 22:17.
[39:43] 4 tn Or “examined” (NASB, TEV); NCV “looked closely at.”
[39:43] 5 tn The deictic particle draws attention to what he saw in such a way as to give the reader Moses’ point of view and a sense of his pleasure: “and behold, they…”
[39:43] 6 sn The situation and wording in Exod 39:43 are reminiscent of Gen 1:28 and 31, with the motifs of blessing people and inspecting what has been made.
