“Our sister, may you become the mother 4 of thousands of ten thousands!
May your descendants possess the strongholds 5 of their enemies.”
1 tn Heb “she will become nations.”
2 tn Heb “peoples.”
3 tn Heb “and said to her.”
4 tn Heb “become thousands of ten thousands.”
5 tn Heb “gate,” which here stands for a walled city. In an ancient Near Eastern city the gate complex was the main area of defense (hence the translation “stronghold”). A similar phrase occurs in Gen 22:17.