Genesis 18:24

18:24 What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare¹ the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

Genesis 23:8

23:8 Then he said to them, “If you agree² that I may bury my dead,³ then hear me out.⁴ Ask⁵ Ephron the son of Zohar

Genesis 24:23

24:23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked.⁶ “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

Genesis 24:42

24:42 When I came to the spring today, I prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful,⁷ may events unfold as follows:⁸

Genesis 33:11

33:11 Please take my present⁹ that was brought to you, for God has been generous¹⁰ to me and I have all I need.”¹¹ When Jacob urged him, he took it.¹²

Genesis 39:4

39:4 So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant.¹³ Potiphar appointed Joseph¹⁴ overseer of his household and put him in charge¹⁵ of everything he owned.

Genesis 39:8

39:8 But he refused, saying¹⁶ to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not give any thought¹⁷ to his household with me here,¹⁸ and everything that he owns he has put into my care.¹⁹

Genesis 42:2

42:2 He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us²⁰ so that we may live²¹ and not die.”²²

Genesis 44:20

44:20 We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old.²³ The boy’s²⁴ brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left,²⁵ and his father loves him.’

¹tn Heb “lift up,” perhaps in the sense of “bear with” (cf. NRSV “forgive”).

²tn Heb “If it is with your purpose.” The Hebrew noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) here has the nuance “purpose” or perhaps “desire” (see BDB 661 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ).

³tn Heb “bury my dead out of my sight.” The last phrase “out of my sight” has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Or “hear me.”

⁵tn Heb “intercede for me with.”

³tn Heb “and he said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’” The order of the introductory clause has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Heb “if you are making successful my way on which I am going.”

⁵tn The words “may events unfold as follows” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

⁵tn Heb “blessing.” It is as if Jacob is trying to repay what he stole from his brother twenty years earlier.

⁶tn Or “gracious,” but in the specific sense of prosperity.

⁷tn Heb “all.”

⁸tn Heb “and he urged him and he took.” The referent of the first pronoun in the sequence (“he”) has been specified as “Jacob” in the translation for clarity.

⁶sn The Hebrew verb translated became his personal attendant refers to higher domestic service, usually along the lines of a personal attendant. Here Joseph is made the household steward, a position well-attested in Egyptian literature.

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

⁸tn Heb “put into his hand.”

⁷tn Heb “and he said.”

⁸tn Heb “know.”

⁹tn The word “here” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰tn Heb “hand.” This is a metonymy for being under the control or care of Joseph.

⁸tn Heb “and buy for us from there.” The word “grain,” the direct object of “buy,” has been supplied for clarity, and the words “from there” have been omitted in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁹tn Following the imperatives, the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav expresses purpose of result.

¹⁰tn The imperfect tense continues the nuance of the verb before it.

⁹tn Heb “and a small boy of old age,” meaning that he was born when his father was elderly.

¹⁰tn Heb “his”; the referent (the boy just mentioned) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹tn Heb “he, only he, to his mother is left.”