Kejadian 22:1

The Sacrifice of Isaac

22:1 Some time after these things God tested ¹  Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham ²  replied.

Kejadian 22:8

22:8 “God will provide ³  for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

Kejadian 24:60

24:60 They blessed Rebekah with these words: ⁴ 

“Our sister, may you become the mother ⁵  of thousands of ten thousands!

May your descendants possess the strongholds ⁶  of their enemies.”

Kejadian 27:8

27:8 Now then, my son, do ⁷  exactly what I tell you! ⁸ 

Kejadian 27:13

27:13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, ⁹  my son! Just obey me! ¹⁰  Go and get them for me!”

Kejadian 27:18

27:18 He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac ¹¹  replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?” ¹² 

Kejadian 27:20-21

27:20 But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world ¹³  did you find it so quickly, ¹⁴  my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” ¹⁵  he replied. ¹⁶  27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, ¹⁷  my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.” ¹⁸ 

Kejadian 49:3

49:3 Reuben, you are my firstborn,

my might and the beginning of my strength,

outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.

Kejadian 49:8

49:8 Judah, ¹⁹  your brothers will praise you.

Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies,

your father’s sons will bow down before you.

[22:1]  ¹ sn The Hebrew verb used here means “to test; to try; to prove.” In this passage God tests Abraham to see if he would be obedient. See T. W. Mann, The Book of the Torah, 44-48. See also J. L. Crenshaw, A Whirlpool of Torment (OBT), 9-30; and J. I. Lawlor, “The Test of Abraham,” GTJ 1 (1980): 19-35.

[22:1]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:8]  ³ tn Heb “will see for himself.” The construction means “to look out for; to see to it; to provide.”

[22:8]  sn God will provide is the central theme of the passage and the turning point in the story. Note Paul’s allusion to the story in Rom 8:32 (“how shall he not freely give us all things?”) as well as H. J. Schoeps, “The Sacrifice of Isaac in Paul’s Theology,” JBL 65 (1946): 385-92.

[24:60]  ⁴ tn Heb “and said to her.”

[24:60]  ⁵ tn Heb “become thousands of ten thousands.”

[24:60]  sn May you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands. The blessing expresses their prayer that she produce children and start a family line that will greatly increase (cf. Gen 17:16).

[24:60]  ⁶ tn Heb “gate,” which here stands for a walled city. In an ancient Near Eastern city the gate complex was the main area of defense (hence the translation “stronghold”). A similar phrase occurs in Gen 22:17.

[27:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “listen to my voice.” The Hebrew idiom means “to comply; to obey.”

[27:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “to that which I am commanding you.”

[27:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “upon me your curse.”

[27:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “only listen to my voice.”

[27:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (Isaac) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:18]  ¹² sn Which are you, my son? Isaac’s first question shows that the deception is going to require more subterfuge than Rebekah had anticipated. Jacob will have to pull off the deceit.

[27:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “What is this?” The enclitic pronoun “this” adds emphasis to the question, which is comparable to the English rhetorical question, “How in the world?”

[27:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you hastened to find.” In translation the infinitive becomes the main verb and the first verb becomes adverbial.

[27:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “caused to meet before me.”

[27:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he said, ‘Because the Lord your God….’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[27:21]  ¹⁷ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative (with prefixed conjunction) indicates purpose or result.

[27:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Are you this one, Esau, my son, or not?” On the use of the interrogative particle here, see BDB 210 s.v. הֲ.

[49:8]  ¹⁹ sn There is a wordplay here; the name Judah (יְהוּדָה, yÿhudah) sounds in Hebrew like the verb translated praise (יוֹדוּךָ, yodukha). The wordplay serves to draw attention to the statement as having special significance.