Kejadian 7:11

7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep ¹  burst open and the floodgates of the heavens ²  were opened.

Kejadian 26:34

26:34 When ³  Esau was forty years old, ⁴  he married ⁵  Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Kejadian 36:24

36:24 These were the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah (who discovered the hot springs ⁶  in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon).

[7:11]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term תְּהוֹם (tÿhom, “deep”) refers to the watery deep, the salty ocean – especially the primeval ocean that surrounds and underlies the earth (see Gen 1:2).

[7:11]  sn The watery deep. The same Hebrew term used to describe the watery deep in Gen 1:2 (תְּהוֹם, tihom) appears here. The text seems to picture here subterranean waters coming from under the earth and contributing to the rapid rise of water. The significance seems to be, among other things, that in this judgment God was returning the world to its earlier condition of being enveloped with water – a judgment involving the reversal of creation. On Gen 7:11 see G. F. Hasel, “The Fountains of the Great Deep,” Origins 1 (1974): 67-72; idem, “The Biblical View of the Extent of the Flood,” Origins 2 (1975): 77-95.

[7:11]  ² sn On the prescientific view of the sky reflected here, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World (AnBib), 46.

[26:34]  ³ tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator (“and it happened”), making this clause subordinate to the next.

[26:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “the son of forty years.”

[26:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “took as a wife.”

[36:24]  ⁶ tn The meaning of this Hebrew term is uncertain; Syriac reads “water” and Vulgate reads “hot water.”