Genesis 10:15

10:15 Canaan was the father of ¹  Sidon his firstborn, ²  Heth, ³ 

Genesis 15:20

15:20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

Genesis 15:2

15:2 But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, ⁴  what will you give me since ⁵  I continue to be ⁶  childless, and my heir ⁷  is ⁸  Eliezer of Damascus?” ⁹ 

Genesis 11:6

11:6 And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language ¹⁰  they have begun to do this, then ¹¹  nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. ¹² 

Genesis 11:21

11:21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24

11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

Genesis 12:9

12:9 Abram continually journeyed by stages ¹³  down to the Negev. ¹⁴ 

Genesis 23:1

The Death of Sarah

23:1 Sarah lived 127 years. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “fathered.”

² sn Sidon was the foremost city in Phoenicia; here Sidon may be the name of its founder.

³ tn Some see a reference to “Hittites” here (cf. NIV), but this seems unlikely. See the note on the phrase “sons of Heth” in Gen 23:3.

⁴ tn The Hebrew text has אֲדֹנָי יֱהוִה (’adonay yehvih, “Master, Lord”). Since the tetragrammaton (YHWH) usually is pointed with the vowels for the Hebrew word אֲדֹנָי (’adonay, “master”) to avoid pronouncing the divine name, that would lead in this place to a repetition of אֲדֹנָי. So the tetragrammaton is here pointed with the vowels for the word אֱלֹהִים (’elohim, “God”) instead. That would produce the reading of the Hebrew as “Master, God” in the Jewish textual tradition. But the presence of “Master” before the holy name is rather compelling evidence that the original would have been “Master, Lord,” which is rendered here “sovereign Lord.”

⁵ tn The vav (ו) disjunctive at the beginning of the clause is circumstantial, expressing the cause or reason.

⁶ tn Heb “I am going.”

⁷ tn Heb “the son of the acquisition of my house.”

⁸ tn The pronoun is anaphoric here, equivalent to the verb “to be” (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 23, §115).

⁹ sn The sentence in the Hebrew text employs a very effective wordplay on the name Damascus: “The son of the acquisition (בֶּן־מֶשֶׁק, ben-mesheq) of my house is Eliezer of Damascus (דַּמֶּשֶׁק, dammesheq).” The words are not the same; they have different sibilants. But the sound play gives the impression that “in the nomen is the omen.” Eliezer the Damascene will be Abram’s heir if Abram dies childless because “Damascus” seems to mean that. See M. F. Unger, “Some Comments on the Text of Genesis 15:2-3,” JBL 72 (1953): 49-50; H. L. Ginsberg, “Abram’s ‘Damascene’ Steward,” BASOR 200 (1970): 31-32.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and one lip to all of them.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and now.” The foundational clause beginning with הֵן (hen) expresses the condition, and the second clause the result. It could be rendered “If this…then now.”

¹² tn Heb “all that they purpose to do will not be withheld from them.”

¹³ tn The Hebrew verb נָסַע (nasa’) means “to journey”; more specifically it means to pull up the tent and move to another place. The construction here uses the preterite of this verb with its infinitive absolute to stress the activity of traveling. But it also adds the infinitive absolute of הָלַךְ (halakh) to stress that the traveling was continually going on. Thus “Abram journeyed, going and journeying” becomes “Abram continually journeyed by stages.”

¹⁴ tn Or “the South [country].”

¹⁵ tn Heb “And the years of Sarah were one hundred years and twenty years and seven years, the years of the life of Sarah.”