Genesis 2:14

2:14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. ¹  The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:2

2:2 By ²  the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, ³  and he ceased ⁴  on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

Genesis 8:3

8:3 The waters kept receding steadily ⁵  from the earth, so that they ⁶  had gone down ⁷  by the end of the 150 days.

Genesis 8:1

8:1 But God remembered ⁸  Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over ⁹  the earth and the waters receded.

Genesis 5:9

5:9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan.

¹ tn Heb “Asshur” (so NEB, NIV).

² tn Heb “on/in the seventh day.”

³ tn Heb “his work which he did [or “made”].”

⁴ tn The Hebrew term שָׁבַּת (shabbat) can be translated “to rest” (“and he rested”) but it basically means “to cease.” This is not a rest from exhaustion; it is the cessation of the work of creation.

⁵ tn The construction combines a Qal preterite from שׁוּב (shuv) with its infinitive absolute to indicate continuous action. The infinitive absolute from הָלָךְ (halakh) is included for emphasis: “the waters returned…going and returning.”

⁶ tn Heb “the waters.” The pronoun (“they”) has been employed in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn The vav (ו) consecutive with the preterite here describes the consequence of the preceding action.

⁸ tn The Hebrew word translated “remembered” often carries the sense of acting in accordance with what is remembered, i.e., fulfilling covenant promises (see B. S. Childs, Memory and Tradition in Israel [SBT], especially p. 34).

⁹ tn Heb “to pass over.”