Genesis 19:1

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

19:1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

Genesis 28:6

28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”


tn The disjunctive clause is temporal here, indicating what Lot was doing at the time of their arrival.

tn Heb “sitting in the gate of Sodom.” The phrase “the gate of Sodom” has been translated “the city’s gateway” for stylistic reasons.

tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”

tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.

tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”