Genesis 15:12

15:12 When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, ¹  and great terror overwhelmed him. ² 

Genesis 19:13

19:13 because we are about to destroy ³  it. The outcry against this place ⁴  is so great before the Lord that he ⁵  has sent us to destroy it.”

Genesis 27:34

27:34 When Esau heard ⁶  his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. ⁷  He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

¹ tn Heb “a deep sleep fell on Abram.”

² tn Heb “and look, terror, a great darkness was falling on him.”

³ tn The Hebrew participle expresses an imminent action here.

⁴ tn Heb “for their outcry.” The words “about this place” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” The repetition of the divine name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun “he” for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn The temporal clause is introduced with the temporal indicator and has the infinitive as its verb.

⁶ tn Heb “and he yelled [with] a great and bitter yell to excess.”