Genesis 11:8

11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building ¹  the city.

Genesis 26:21

26:21 His servants ²  dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it ³  Sitnah. ⁴ 

Genesis 42:17

42:17 He imprisoned ⁵  them all for three days.

Genesis 42:26

42:26 So they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left. ⁶ 

Genesis 50:26

50:26 So Joseph died at the age of 110. ⁷  After they embalmed him, his body ⁸  was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

¹ tn The infinitive construct לִבְנֹת (livnot, “building”) here serves as the object of the verb “they ceased, stopped,” answering the question of what they stopped doing.

² tn Heb “they”; the referent (Isaac’s servants) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “and he called its name.” The referent (Isaac) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ sn The name Sitnah (שִׂטְנָה, sitnah) is derived from a Hebrew verbal root meaning “to oppose; to be an adversary” (cf. Job 1:6). The name was a reminder that the digging of this well caused “opposition” from the Philistines.

³ sn The same Hebrew word is used for Joseph’s imprisonment in 40:3, 4, 7. There is some mirroring going on in the narrative. The Hebrew word used here (אָסַף, ’asaf, “to gather”) is not normally used in a context like this (for placing someone in prison), but it forms a wordplay on the name Joseph (יוֹסֵף, yosoef) and keeps the comparison working.

⁴ tn Heb “and they went from there.”

⁵ tn Heb “son of a hundred and ten years.”

⁶ tn Heb “he.”