Genesis 10:24

10:24 Arphaxad was the father of ¹  Shelah, ²  and Shelah was the father of Eber. ³ 

Genesis 11:12

11:12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

Genesis 8:10

8:10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

Genesis 46:28

46:28 Jacob ⁴  sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. ⁵  So they came to the land of Goshen.

Genesis 11:13

11:13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other ⁶  sons and daughters. ⁷ 

Genesis 11:15

11:15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other ⁸  sons and daughters.

Genesis 42:4

42:4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, ⁹  for he said, ¹⁰  “What if some accident ¹¹  happens ¹²  to him?”

Genesis 45:23

45:23 To his father he sent the following: ¹³  ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father’s journey.

Genesis 45:27

45:27 But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, ¹⁴  and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

Genesis 46:5

46:5 Then Jacob started out ¹⁵  from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

¹ tn Heb “fathered.”

² tc The MT reads “Arphaxad fathered Shelah”; the LXX reads “Arphaxad fathered Cainan, and Cainan fathered Sala [= Shelah].” The LXX reading also appears to lie behind Luke 3:35-36.

³ sn Genesis 11 traces the line of Shem through Eber (עֵבֶר, ’ever ) to Abraham the “Hebrew” (עִבְרִי, ’ivri).

⁴ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “to direct before him to Goshen.”

⁷ tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tc The reading of the MT is followed in vv. 11-12; the LXX reads, “And [= when] Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, [and] he fathered [= became the father of] Cainan. And after he fathered [= became the father of] Cainan, Arphaxad lived four hundred and thirty years and fathered [= had] [other] sons and daughters, and [then] he died. And [= when] Cainan had lived one hundred and thirty years, [and] he fathered [= became the father of] Sala [= Shelah]. And after he fathered [= became the father of] Sala [= Shelah], Cainan lived three hundred and thirty years and fathered [= had] [other] sons and daughters, and [then] he died.” See also the note on “Shelah” in Gen 10:24; the LXX reading also appears to lie behind Luke 3:35-36.

¹⁰ tn Here and in vv. 16, 19, 21, 23, 25 the word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

¹³ tn Heb “But Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, Jacob did not send with his brothers.” The disjunctive clause highlights the contrast between Benjamin and the other ten.

¹⁴ tn The Hebrew verb אָמַר (’amar, “to say”) could also be translated “thought” (i.e., “he said to himself”) here, giving Jacob’s reasoning rather than spoken words.

¹⁵ tn The Hebrew noun אָסוֹן (’ason) is a rare word meaning “accident, harm.” Apart from its use in these passages it occurs in Exodus 21:22-23 of an accident to a pregnant woman. The term is a rather general one, but Jacob was no doubt thinking of his loss of Joseph.

¹⁶ tn Heb “encounters.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “according to this.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and they spoke to him all the words of Joseph which he had spoke to them.”

²² tn Heb “arose.”