19:1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while 1 Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. 2 When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. 3 As he blessed him, 4 Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” 5
1 tn The disjunctive clause is temporal here, indicating what Lot was doing at the time of their arrival.
2 tn Heb “sitting in the gate of Sodom.” The phrase “the gate of Sodom” has been translated “the city’s gateway” for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”
4 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.
5 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”