Genesis 11:30

11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Genesis 19:26

19:26 But Lot’s ¹  wife looked back longingly ²  and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Genesis 10:10

10:10 The primary regions ³  of his kingdom were Babel, ⁴  Erech, ⁵  Akkad, ⁶  and Calneh ⁷  in the land of Shinar. ⁸ 

Genesis 24:51

24:51 Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become ⁹  the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.” ¹⁰ 

Genesis 11:3

11:3 Then they said to one another, ¹¹  “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” ¹²  (They had brick instead of stone and tar ¹³  instead of mortar.) ¹⁴ 

Genesis 20:12

20:12 What’s more, ¹⁵  she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

Genesis 24:67

24:67 Then Isaac brought Rebekah ¹⁶  into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her ¹⁷  as his wife and loved her. ¹⁸  So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. ¹⁹ 

Genesis 47:20

47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each ²⁰  of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. ²¹  So the land became Pharaoh’s.

¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Lot) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn The Hebrew verb means “to look intently; to gaze” (see 15:5).

¹ tn Heb “beginning.” E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 67, suggests “mainstays,” citing Jer 49:35 as another text where the Hebrew noun is so used.

² tn Or “Babylon.”

³ sn Erech (ancient Uruk, modern Warka), one of the most ancient civilizations, was located southeast of Babylon.

⁴ sn Akkad, or ancient Agade, was associated with Sargon and located north of Babylon.

⁵ tn No such place is known in Shinar (i.e., Babylonia). Therefore some have translated the Hebrew term כַלְנֵה (khalneh) as “all of them,” referring to the three previous names (cf. NRSV).

⁶ sn Shinar is another name for Babylonia.

¹ tn Following the imperatives, the jussive with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.

² tn Heb “as the Lord has spoken.”

¹ tn Heb “a man to his neighbor.” The Hebrew idiom may be translated “to each other” or “one to another.”

² tn The speech contains two cohortatives of exhortation followed by their respective cognate accusatives: “let us brick bricks” (נִלְבְּנָה לְבֵנִים, nilbbÿnah lÿvenim) and “burn for burning” (נִשְׂרְפָה לִשְׂרֵפָה, nisrÿfah lisrefah). This stresses the intensity of the undertaking; it also reflects the Akkadian text which uses similar constructions (see E. A. Speiser, Genesis [AB], 75-76).

³ tn Or “bitumen” (cf. NEB, NRSV).

⁴ tn The disjunctive clause gives information parenthetical to the narrative.

¹ tn Heb “but also.”

¹ tn Heb “her”; the referent has been specified here in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “Rebekah”; here the proper name was replaced by the pronoun (“her”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “and he took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her.”

⁴ tn Heb “after his mother.” This must refer to Sarah’s death.

¹ tn The Hebrew text connects this clause with the preceding one with a causal particle (כִּי, ki). The translation divides the clauses into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

² tn The Hebrew text adds “upon them.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.