Kejadian 7:23

7:23 So the Lord ¹  destroyed ²  every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. ³  They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived. ⁴ 

Kejadian 11:1

The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel

11:1 The whole earth ⁵  had a common language and a common vocabulary. ⁶ 

Kejadian 19:6

19:6 Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.

Kejadian 23:7

23:7 Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, ⁷  the sons of Heth.

Kejadian 27:44

27:44 Live with him for a little while ⁸  until your brother’s rage subsides.

Kejadian 29:1

The Marriages of Jacob

29:1 So Jacob moved on ⁹  and came to the land of the eastern people. ¹⁰ 

Kejadian 33:12

33:12 Then Esau ¹¹  said, “Let’s be on our way! ¹²  I will go in front of you.”

Kejadian 34:30

34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought ruin ¹³  on me by making me a foul odor ¹⁴  among the inhabitants of the land – among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I ¹⁵  am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”

Kejadian 35:15

35:15 Jacob named the place ¹⁶  where God spoke with him Bethel. ¹⁷ 

Kejadian 49:16

49:16 Dan ¹⁸  will judge ¹⁹  his people

as one of the tribes of Israel.

Kejadian 50:5

50:5 ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, ²⁰  “I am about to die. Bury me ²¹  in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”

[7:23]  ¹ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:23]  ² tn Heb “wiped away” (cf. NRSV “blotted out”).

[7:23]  ³ tn Heb “from man to animal to creeping thing and to the bird of the sky.”

[7:23]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew verb שָׁאָר (sha’ar) means “to be left over; to survive” in the Niphal verb stem. It is the word used in later biblical texts for the remnant that escapes judgment. See G. F. Hasel, “Semantic Values of Derivatives of the Hebrew Root só’r,” AUSS 11 (1973): 152-69.

[11:1]  ⁵ sn The whole earth. Here “earth” is a metonymy of subject, referring to the people who lived in the earth. Genesis 11 begins with everyone speaking a common language, but chap. 10 has the nations arranged by languages. It is part of the narrative art of Genesis to give the explanation of the event after the narration of the event. On this passage see A. P. Ross, “The Dispersion of the Nations in Genesis 11:1-9,” BSac 138 (1981): 119-38.

[11:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “one lip and one [set of] words.” The term “lip” is a metonymy of cause, putting the instrument for the intended effect. They had one language. The term “words” refers to the content of their speech. They had the same vocabulary.

[23:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “to the people of the land” (also in v. 12).

[27:44]  ⁸ tn Heb “a few days.” Rebekah probably downplays the length of time Jacob will be gone, perhaps to encourage him and assure him that things will settle down soon. She probably expects Esau’s anger to die down quickly. However, Jacob ends up being gone twenty years and he never sees Rebekah again.

[29:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “and Jacob lifted up his feet.” This unusual expression suggests that Jacob had a new lease on life now that God had promised him the blessing he had so desperately tried to gain by his own efforts. The text portrays him as having a new step in his walk.

[29:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the land of the sons of the east.”

[33:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:12]  ¹² tn Heb “let us travel and let us go.” The two cohortatives are used in combination with the sense, “let’s travel along, get going, be on our way.”

[34:30]  ¹³ tn The traditional translation is “troubled me” (KJV, ASV), but the verb refers to personal or national disaster and suggests complete ruin (see Josh 7:25, Judg 11:35, Prov 11:17). The remainder of the verse describes the “trouble” Simeon and Levi had caused.

[34:30]  ¹⁴ tn In the causative stem the Hebrew verb בָּאַשׁ (ba’ash) means “to cause to stink, to have a foul smell.” In the contexts in which it is used it describes foul smells, stenches, or things that are odious. Jacob senses that the people in the land will find this act terribly repulsive. See P. R. Ackroyd, “The Hebrew Root באשׁ,” JTS 2 (1951): 31-36.

[34:30]  ¹⁵ tn Jacob speaks in the first person as the head and representative of the entire family.

[35:15]  ¹⁶ sn Called the name of the place. In view of the previous naming of Bethel in Gen 28:19, here Jacob was confirming or affirming the name through an official ritual marking the fulfillment of the vow. This place now did become Bethel, the house of God.

[35:15]  ¹⁷ tn The name Bethel means “house of God” in Hebrew.

[35:15]  map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[49:16]  ¹⁸ sn The name Dan (דָּן, dan) means “judge” and forms a wordplay with the following verb.

[49:16]  ¹⁹ tn Or “govern.”

[50:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “saying.”

[50:5]  ²¹ tn The imperfect verbal form here has the force of a command.