Genesis 47:10-14

47:10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence. ¹ 

47:11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory ²  in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, ³  just as Pharaoh had commanded. 47:12 Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

47:13 But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away ⁴  because of the famine. 47:14 Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment ⁵  for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s palace. ⁶ 

Genesis 21:4

21:4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, ⁷  Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 29:11

29:11 your infants, your wives, and the ⁹  foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

Deuteronomy 31:12

31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 31:2

31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, ¹⁰  and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’

Deuteronomy 20:13

20:13 The Lord your God will deliver it over to you ¹¹  and you must kill every single male by the sword.

Jeremiah 32:39

32:39 I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for ¹²  their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.

Acts 2:39

2:39 For the promise ¹³  is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Acts 2:1

The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost

2:1 Now ¹⁴  when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

Colossians 1:14

1:14 in whom we have redemption, ¹⁵  the forgiveness of sins.

¹ tn Heb “from before Pharaoh.”

² tn Heb “a possession,” or “a holding.” Joseph gave them a plot of land with rights of ownership in the land of Goshen.

³ sn The land of Rameses is another designation for the region of Goshen. It is named Rameses because of a city in that region (Exod 1:11; 12:37). The use of this name may represent a modernization of the text for the understanding of the intended readers, substituting a later name for an earlier one. Alternatively, there may have been an earlier Rameses for which the region was named.

⁴ tn The verb לַהַה (lahah, = לָאָה, la’ah) means “to faint, to languish”; it figuratively describes the land as wasting away, drooping, being worn out.

⁵ tn Or “in exchange.” On the use of the preposition here see BDB 90 s.v. בְּ.

⁶ tn Heb “house.”

⁷ tn Heb “Isaac his son, the son of eight days.” The name “Isaac” is repeated in the translation for clarity.

⁸ sn Just as God had commanded him to do. With the birth of the promised child, Abraham obeyed the Lord by both naming (Gen 17:19) and circumcising Isaac (17:12).

⁹ tn Heb “your.”

¹⁰ tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”

¹¹ tn Heb “to your hands.”

¹² tn Heb “I will give to them one heart and one way to [= in order that they may] fear me all the days for good to them.” The phrase “one heart” refers both to unanimity of will and accord (cf. 1 Chr 12:38 [12:39 HT]; 2 Chr 30:12) and to singleness of purpose or intent (cf. Ezek 11:19 and see BDB 525 s.v. ֵלב 4 where reference is made to “inclinations, resolutions, and determinations of the will”). The phrase “one way” refers to one way of life or conduct (cf. BDB 203 s.v. דֶּרֶךְ 6.a where reference is made to moral action and character), a way of life that is further qualified by the goal of showing “fear, reverence, respect” for the Lord. The Hebrew sentence has been broken up to avoid a long complex sentence in English which is contrary to contemporary English style. However, an attempt has been made to preserve all the connections of the original.

¹³ sn The promise refers to the promise of the Holy Spirit that Jesus received from the Father in 2:33 and which he now pours out on others. The promise consists of the Holy Spirit (see note in 2:33). Jesus is the active mediator of God’s blessing.

¹⁴ tn Grk “And” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic. Greek style often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” but English style does not.

¹⁵ tc διὰ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ (dia tou {aimato" autou, “through his blood”) is read at this juncture by several minuscule mss (614 630 1505 2464 al) as well as a few, mostly secondary, versional and patristic witnesses. But the reading was prompted by the parallel in Eph 1:7 where the wording is solid. If these words had been in the original of Colossians, why would scribes omit them here but not in Eph 1:7? Further, the testimony on behalf of the shorter reading is quite overwhelming: {א A B C D F G Ψ 075 0150 6 33 1739 1881 Ï latt co as well as several other versions and fathers}. The conviction that “through his blood” is not authentic in Col 1:14 is as strong as the conviction that these words are authentic in Eph 1:7.