Kejadian 18:5

18:5 And let me get ¹  a bit of food ²  so that you may refresh yourselves ³  since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.” ⁴  “All right,” they replied, “you may do as you say.”

Kejadian 27:31

27:31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau ⁵  said to him, “My father, get up ⁶  and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.” ⁷ 

Kejadian 31:27

31:27 Why did you run away secretly ⁸  and deceive me? ⁹  Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps? ¹⁰ 

Kejadian 32:5

32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent ¹¹  this message ¹²  to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Kejadian 43:14

43:14 May the sovereign God ¹³  grant you mercy before the man so that he may release ¹⁴  your other brother ¹⁵  and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.” ¹⁶ 

Kejadian 45:7

45:7 God sent me ¹⁷  ahead of you to preserve you ¹⁸  on the earth and to save your lives ¹⁹  by a great deliverance.

Kejadian 47:23

47:23 Joseph said to the people, “Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate ²⁰  the land.

[18:5]  ¹ tn The Qal cohortative here probably has the nuance of polite request.

[18:5]  ² tn Heb “a piece of bread.” The Hebrew word לֶחֶם (lekhem) can refer either to bread specifically or to food in general. Based on Abraham’s directions to Sarah in v. 6, bread was certainly involved, but v. 7 indicates that Abraham had a more elaborate meal in mind.

[18:5]  ³ tn Heb “strengthen your heart.” The imperative after the cohortative indicates purpose here.

[18:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “so that you may refresh yourselves, after [which] you may be on your way – for therefore you passed by near your servant.”

[27:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he said to his father”; the referent of “he” (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity, while the words “his father” have been replaced by the pronoun “him” for stylistic reasons.

[27:31]  ⁶ tn Or “arise” (i.e., sit up).

[27:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “so that your soul may bless me.”

[31:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “Why did you hide in order to flee?” The verb “hide” and the infinitive “to flee” form a hendiadys, the infinitive becoming the main verb and the other the adverb: “flee secretly.”

[31:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “and steal me.”

[31:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And [why did] you not tell me so I could send you off with joy and with songs, with a tambourine and with a harp?”

[32:5]  ¹¹ tn Or “I am sending.” The form is a preterite with the vav consecutive; it could be rendered as an English present tense – as the Hebrew perfect/preterite allows – much like an epistolary aorist in Greek. The form assumes the temporal perspective of the one who reads the message.

[32:5]  ¹² tn The words “this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[43:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.

[43:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “release to you.” After the jussive this perfect verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) probably indicates logical consequence, as well as temporal sequence.

[43:14]  ¹⁵ sn Several Jewish commentators suggest that the expression your other brother refers to Joseph. This would mean that Jacob prophesied unwittingly. However, it is much more likely that Simeon is the referent of the phrase “your other brother” (see Gen 42:24).

[43:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “if I am bereaved I am bereaved.” With this fatalistic sounding statement Jacob resolves himself to the possibility of losing both Benjamin and Simeon.

[45:7]  ¹⁷ sn God sent me. The repetition of this theme that God sent Joseph is reminiscent of commission narratives in which the leader could announce that God sent him (e.g., Exod 3:15).

[45:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to make you a remnant.” The verb, followed here by the preposition לְ (lÿ), means “to make.”

[45:7]  ¹⁹ tn The infinitive gives a second purpose for God’s action.

[47:23]  ²⁰ tn The perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive is equivalent to a command here.