Genesis 17:12

17:12 Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old ¹  must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

Genesis 23:13

23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay ²  to you the price ³  of the field. Take it from me so that I may ⁴  bury my dead there.”

Genesis 23:16

23:16 So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price ⁵  and weighed ⁶  out for him ⁷  the price ⁸  that Ephron had quoted ⁹  in the hearing of the sons of Heth – 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time. ¹⁰ 

Genesis 37:28

37:28 So when the Midianite ¹¹  merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled ¹²  him ¹³  out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites ¹⁴  then took Joseph to Egypt.

Genesis 44:1

The Final Test

44:1 He instructed the servant who was over his household, “Fill the sacks of the men with as much food as they can carry and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 47:15

47:15 When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians ¹⁵  came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die ¹⁶  before your very eyes because our money has run out?”

¹ tn Heb “the son of eight days.”

² tn Heb “give.”

³ tn Heb “silver.”

⁴ tn After the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose or result.

³ tn Heb “listened to Ephron.”

⁴ tn Heb “and Abraham weighed out.”

⁵ tn Heb “to Ephron.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “silver.”

⁷ tn Heb “that he had spoken.” The referent (Ephron) has been specified here in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “passing for the merchant.” The final clause affirms that the measurement of silver was according to the standards used by the merchants of the time.

⁴ sn On the close relationship between Ishmaelites (v. 25) and Midianites, see Judg 8:24.

⁵ tn Heb “they drew and they lifted up.” The referent (Joseph’s brothers) has been specified in the translation for clarity; otherwise the reader might assume the Midianites had pulled Joseph from the cistern (but cf. NAB).

⁶ tn Heb “Joseph” (both here and in the following clause); the proper name has been replaced both times by the pronoun “him” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Ishmaelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “all Egypt.” The expression is a metonymy and refers to all the people of Egypt.

⁶ tn The imperfect verbal form has a deliberative force here.