30:1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she 3 became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children 4 or I’ll die!”
1:6 God said, “Let there be an expanse 5 in the midst of the waters and let it separate water 6 from water.
1 tn Or “conceived.”
2 tn Heb “my reproach.” A “reproach” is a cutting taunt or painful ridicule, but here it probably refers by metonymy to Rachel’s barren condition, which was considered shameful in this culture and was the reason why she was the object of taunting and ridicule.
3 tn Heb “Rachel.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “sons.”
5 tn The Hebrew word refers to an expanse of air pressure between the surface of the sea and the clouds, separating water below from water above. In v. 8 it is called “sky.”
6 tn Heb “the waters from the waters.”
7 tn Grk “Thus.”
8 tn Grk “in the days.”
9 tn Grk “has looked on me” (an idiom for taking favorable notice of someone).
10 sn Barrenness was often seen as a reproach or disgrace (Lev 20:20-21; Jer 22:30), but now at her late age (the exact age is never given in Luke’s account), God had miraculously removed it (see also Luke 1:7).
11 tn Grk “among men”; but the context clearly indicates a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") here.