Kejadian 40:19

40:19 In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you ¹  and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

Kejadian 19:17

19:17 When they had brought them outside, they ²  said, “Run ³  for your lives! Don’t look ⁴  behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! ⁵  Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

[40:19]  ¹ tn Heb “Pharaoh will lift up your head from upon you.” Joseph repeats the same expression from the first interpretation (see v. 13), but with the added words “from upon you,” which allow the statement to have a more literal and ominous meaning – the baker will be decapitated.

[19:17]  ² tn Or “one of them”; Heb “he.” Several ancient versions (LXX, Vulgate, Syriac) read the plural “they.” See also the note on “your” in v. 19.

[19:17]  ³ tn Heb “escape.”

[19:17]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew verb translated “look” signifies an intense gaze, not a passing glance. This same verb is used later in v. 26 to describe Lot’s wife’s self-destructive look back at the city.

[19:17]  ⁵ tn Or “in the plain”; Heb “in the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.