Genesis 20:13

20:13 When God made me wander ¹  from my father’s house, I told her, ‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: ²  Every place we go, say about me, “He is my brother.”’”

Genesis 24:7

24:7 “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, ³  promised me with a solemn oath, ⁴  ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel ⁵  before you so that you may find ⁶  a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 28:15

28:15 I am with you! ⁷  I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”

Genesis 35:4

35:4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession ⁸  and the rings that were in their ears. ⁹  Jacob buried them ¹⁰  under the oak ¹¹  near Shechem

Genesis 49:30

49:30 It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

¹ tn The Hebrew verb is plural. This may be a case of grammatical agreement with the name for God, which is plural in form. However, when this plural name refers to the one true God, accompanying predicates are usually singular in form. Perhaps Abraham is accommodating his speech to Abimelech’s polytheistic perspective. (See GKC 463 §145.i.) If so, one should translate, “when the gods made me wander.”

² tn Heb “This is your loyal deed which you can do for me.”

³ tn Or “the land of my birth.”

⁴ tn Heb “and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying.”

⁵ tn Or “his messenger.”

⁶ tn Heb “before you and you will take.”

⁵ tn Heb “Look, I [am] with you.” The clause is a nominal clause; the verb to be supplied could be present (as in the translation) or future, “Look, I [will be] with you” (cf. NEB).

⁷ tn Heb “in their hand.”

⁸ sn On the basis of a comparison with Gen 34 and Num 31, G. J. Wenham argues that the foreign gods and the rings could have been part of the plunder that came from the destruction of Shechem (Genesis [WBC], 2:324).

⁹ sn Jacob buried them. On the burial of the gods, see E. Nielson, “The Burial of the Foreign Gods,” ST 8 (1954/55): 102-22.

¹⁰ tn Or “terebinth.”