Genesis 24:3

24:3 so that I may make you solemnly promise ¹  by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire ²  a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

Genesis 37:35

37:35 All his sons and daughters stood by ³  him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” ⁴  So Joseph’s ⁵  father wept for him.

¹ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose.

² tn Heb “because you must not take.”

³ tn Heb “arose, stood”; which here suggests that they stood by him in his time of grief.

⁴ tn Heb “and he said, ‘Indeed I will go down to my son mourning to Sheol.’” Sheol was viewed as the place where departed spirits went after death.

⁵ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.