Kejadian 17:15

17:15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; ¹  Sarah ²  will be her name.

Kejadian 24:58

24:58 So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want ³  to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”

Kejadian 30:36

30:36 Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, ⁴  while ⁵  Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Kejadian 35:10

35:10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel. ⁶ 

Kejadian 48:3

48:3 Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God ⁷  appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

[17:15]  ¹ tn Heb “[As for] Sarai your wife, you must not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [will be] her name.”

[17:15]  ² sn Sarah. The name change seems to be a dialectical variation, both spellings meaning “princess” or “queen.” Like the name Abram, the name Sarai symbolized the past. The new name Sarah, like the name Abraham, would be a reminder of what God intended to do for Sarah in the future.

[24:58]  ³ tn The imperfect verbal form here has a modal nuance, expressing desire.

[30:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he put a journey of three days between himself and Jacob.”

[30:36]  sn Three days’ traveling distance from Jacob. E. A. Speiser observes, “Laban is delighted with the terms, and promptly proceeds to violate the spirit of the bargain by removing to a safe distance all the grown animals that would be likely to produce the specified spots” (Genesis [AB], 238). Laban apparently thought that by separating out the spotted, striped, and dark colored animals he could minimize the production of spotted, striped, or dark offspring that would then belong to Jacob.

[30:36]  ⁵ tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by the vav with subject) is circumstantial/temporal; Laban removed the animals while Jacob was taking care of the rest.

[35:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he called his name Israel.” The referent of the pronoun “he” (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[35:10]  sn The name Israel means “God fights” (although some interpret the meaning as “he fights [with] God”). See Gen 32:28.

[48:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.