14:1 At that time 5 Amraphel king of Shinar, 6 Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations 7
11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.
7:8 For Syria’s leader is Damascus,
and the leader of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation. 8
1 tn The Hebrew text simply has “night” as an adverbial accusative.
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “he divided himself…he and his servants.”
4 tn Heb “left.” Directions in ancient Israel were given in relation to the east rather than the north.
5 tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator וַיְהִי (vayÿhi) followed by “in the days of.”
6 sn Shinar (also in v. 9) is the region of Babylonia.
7 tn Or “king of Goyim.” The Hebrew term גּוֹיִם (goyim) means “nations,” but a number of modern translations merely transliterate the Hebrew (cf. NEB “Goyim”; NIV, NRSV “Goiim”).
8 tn Heb “Ephraim will be too shattered to be a nation”; NIV “to be a people.”