Genesis 23:9

23:9 if he will sell ¹  me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly ²  for the full price, ³  so that I may own it as a burial site.”

Genesis 24:53

24:53 Then he ⁴  brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

Genesis 28:4

28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham ⁵  so that you may possess the land ⁶  God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.” ⁷ 

Genesis 34:12

34:12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, ⁸  and I’ll give ⁹  whatever you ask ¹⁰  of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

Genesis 38:18

38:18 He said, “What pledge should I give you?” She replied, “Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her and had sex with her. ¹¹  She became pregnant by him.

Genesis 43:24

43:24 The servant in charge ¹²  brought the men into Joseph’s house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. Then he gave food to their donkeys.

Genesis 45:21-22

45:21 So the sons of Israel did as he said. ¹³  Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, ¹⁴  and he gave them provisions for the journey. 45:22 He gave sets of clothes to each one of them, ¹⁵  but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes. ¹⁶ 

Genesis 48:4

48:4 He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful ¹⁷  and will multiply you. ¹⁸  I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants ¹⁹  as an everlasting possession.’ ²⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “give.” This is used here (also a second time later in this verse) as an idiom for “sell”; see the note on the word “grant” in v. 4.

² tn Heb “in your presence.”

³ tn Heb “silver.”

⁴ tn Heb “the servant”; the noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Heb “and may he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you.” The name “Abraham” is an objective genitive here; this refers to the blessing that God gave to Abraham.

⁸ tn The words “the land” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “the land of your sojournings,” that is, the land where Jacob had been living as a resident alien, as his future descendants would after him.

¹⁰ tn Heb “Make very great upon me the bride price and gift.” The imperatives are used in a rhetorical manner. Shechem’s point is that he will pay the price, no matter how expensive it might be.

¹¹ tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.

¹² tn Heb “say.”

¹³ tn Heb “and he went to her.” This expression is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.

¹⁶ tn Heb “the man.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel did so.”

²⁰ tn Heb “according to the mouth of Pharaoh.”

²² tn Heb “to all of them he gave, to each one, changes of outer garments.”

²³ tn Heb “changes of outer garments.”

²⁵ tn Heb “Look, I am making you fruitful.” The participle following הִנֵּה (hinneh) has the nuance of a certain and often imminent future.

²⁶ tn The perfect verbal form with vav consecutive carries on the certain future idea.

²⁷ tn The Hebrew text adds “after you,” which has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²⁸ tn The Hebrew word אֲחֻזָּה (’akhuzzah), translated “possession,” describes a permanent holding in the land. It is the noun form of the same verb (אָחַז, ’akhaz) that was used for the land given to them in Goshen (Gen 47:27).