Kejadian 18:30-31

18:30 Then Abraham ¹  said, “May the Lord not be angry ²  so that I may speak! ³  What if thirty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

18:31 Abraham ⁴  said, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

Kejadian 44:18

44:18 Then Judah approached him and said, “My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. ⁵  Please do not get angry with your servant, ⁶  for you are just like Pharaoh. ⁷ 

Kejadian 49:6

49:6 O my soul, do not come into their council,

do not be united to their assembly, my heart, ⁸ 

for in their anger they have killed men,

and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.

[18:30]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:30]  ² tn Heb “let it not be hot to the Lord.” This is an idiom which means “may the Lord not be angry.”

[18:30]  ³ tn After the jussive, the cohortative indicates purpose/result.

[18:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[44:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “Please my lord, let your servant speak a word into the ears of my lord.”

[44:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “and let not your anger burn against your servant.”

[44:18]  ⁷ sn You are just like Pharaoh. Judah’s speech begins with the fear and trembling of one who stands condemned. Joseph has as much power as Pharaoh, either to condemn or to pardon. Judah will make his appeal, wording his speech in such a way as to appeal to Joseph’s compassion for the father, whom he mentions no less than fourteen times in the speech.

[49:6]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text reads “my glory,” but it is preferable to repoint the form and read “my liver.” The liver was sometimes viewed as the seat of the emotions and will (see HALOT 456 s.v. II כָּבֵד) for which the heart is the modern equivalent.