Kejadian 16:3

16:3 So after Abram had lived ¹  in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, ²  to her husband to be his wife. ³ 

Kejadian 18:21

18:21 that I must go down ⁴  and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. ⁵  If not, ⁶  I want to know.”

Kejadian 34:15

34:15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become ⁷  like us by circumcising ⁸  all your males.

Kejadian 35:18

35:18 With her dying breath, ⁹  she named him Ben-Oni. ¹⁰  But his father called him Benjamin instead. ¹¹ 

Kejadian 36:2

36:2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: ¹²  Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter ¹³  of Zibeon the Hivite,

Kejadian 36:39

36:39 When Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadad ¹⁴  reigned in his place; the name of his city was Pau. ¹⁵  His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.

Kejadian 39:23

39:23 The warden did not concern himself ¹⁶  with anything that was in Joseph’s ¹⁷  care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.

Kejadian 41:32

41:32 The dream was repeated to Pharaoh ¹⁸  because the matter has been decreed ¹⁹  by God, and God will make it happen soon. ²⁰ 

Kejadian 41:35

41:35 They should gather all the excess food ²¹  during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority ²²  they should store up grain so the cities will have food, ²³  and they should preserve it. ²⁴ 

Kejadian 46:27

46:27 Counting the two sons ²⁵  of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy. ²⁶ 

[16:3]  ¹ tn Heb “at the end of ten years, to live, Abram.” The prepositional phrase introduces the temporal clause, the infinitive construct serves as the verb, and the name “Abram” is the subject.

[16:3]  ² tn Heb “the Egyptian, her female servant.”

[16:3]  ³ sn To be his wife. Hagar became a slave wife, not on equal standing with Sarai. However, if Hagar produced the heir, she would be the primary wife in the eyes of society. When this eventually happened, Hagar become insolent, prompting Sarai’s anger.

[18:21]  ⁴ tn The cohortative indicates the Lord’s resolve.

[18:21]  sn I must go down. The descent to “see” Sodom is a bold anthropomorphism, stressing the careful judgment of God. The language is reminiscent of the Lord going down to see the Tower of Babel in Gen 11:1-9.

[18:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “[if] according to the outcry that has come to me they have done completely.” Even the Lord, who is well aware of the human capacity to sin, finds it hard to believe that anyone could be as bad as the “outcry” against Sodom and Gomorrah suggests.

[18:21]  ⁶ sn The short phrase if not provides a ray of hope and inspires Abraham’s intercession.

[34:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “if you are like us.”

[34:15]  ⁸ tn The infinitive here explains how they would become like them.

[35:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the going out of her life, for she was dying.” Rachel named the child with her dying breath.

[35:18]  ¹⁰ sn The name Ben-Oni means “son of my suffering.” It is ironic that Rachel’s words to Jacob in Gen 30:1, “Give me children or I’ll die,” take a different turn here, for it was having the child that brought about her death.

[35:18]  ¹¹ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive.

[35:18]  sn His father called him Benjamin. There was a preference for giving children good or positive names in the ancient world, and “son of my suffering” would not do (see the incident in 1 Chr 4:9-10), because it would be a reminder of the death of Rachel (in this connection, see also D. Daube, “The Night of Death,” HTR 61 [1968]: 629-32). So Jacob named him Benjamin, which means “son of the [or “my”] right hand.” The name Benjamin appears in the Mari texts. There have been attempts to connect this name to the resident tribe listed at Mari, “sons of the south” (since the term “right hand” can also mean “south” in Hebrew), but this assumes a different reading of the story. See J. Muilenburg, “The Birth of Benjamin,” JBL 75 (1956): 194-201.

[36:2]  ¹² tn Heb “from the daughters of Canaan.”

[36:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “daughter,” but see Gen 36:24-25.

[36:39]  ¹⁴ tc Most mss of the MT read “Hadar” here; “Hadad” is the reading found in some Hebrew mss, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and Syriac (cf. also 1 Chr 1:50).

[36:39]  ¹⁵ tn The name of the city is given as “Pai” in 1 Chr 1:50.

[39:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “was not looking at anything.”

[39:23]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[41:32]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and concerning the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh two times.” The Niphal infinitive here is the object of the preposition; it is followed by the subjective genitive “of the dream.”

[41:32]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “established.”

[41:32]  ²⁰ tn The clause combines a participle and an infinitive construct: God “is hurrying…to do it,” meaning he is going to do it soon.

[41:35]  ²¹ tn Heb “all the food.”

[41:35]  ²² tn Heb “under the hand of Pharaoh.”

[41:35]  ²³ tn Heb “[for] food in the cities.” The noun translated “food” is an adverbial accusative in the sentence.

[41:35]  ²⁴ tn The perfect with vav (ו) consecutive carries the same force as the sequence of jussives before it.

[46:27]  ²⁵ tn The LXX reads “nine sons,” probably counting the grandsons of Joseph born to Ephraim and Manasseh (cf. 1 Chr 7:14-20).

[46:27]  ²⁶ tn Heb “And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two people; all the people belonging to the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.”

[46:27]  sn The number seventy includes Jacob himself and the seventy-one descendants (including Dinah, Joseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim) listed in vv. 8-25, minus Er and Onan (deceased). The LXX gives the number as “seventy-five” (cf. Acts 7:14).