Genesis 18:24

18:24 What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare ¹  the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

Genesis 24:3

24:3 so that I may make you solemnly promise ²  by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire ³  a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

Genesis 25:22

25:22 But the children struggled ⁴  inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” ⁵  So she asked the Lord, ⁶ 

Genesis 45:6

45:6 For these past two years there has been famine in ⁷  the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

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

² tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose.

³ tn Heb “because you must not take.”

³ tn The Hebrew word used here suggests a violent struggle that was out of the ordinary.

⁴ tn Heb “If [it is] so, why [am] I this [way]?” Rebekah wanted to know what was happening to her, but the question itself reflects a growing despair over the struggle of the unborn children.

⁵ sn Asked the Lord. In other passages (e.g., 1 Sam 9:9) this expression refers to inquiring of a prophet, but no details are provided here.

⁴ tn Heb “the famine [has been] in the midst of.”