Genesis 24:54

24:54 After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. ¹ 

When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.” ² 

Genesis 31:41

31:41 This was my lot ³  for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave ⁴  for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

Genesis 32:10

32:10 I am not worthy of all the faithful love ⁵  you have shown ⁶  your servant. With only my walking stick ⁷  I crossed the Jordan, ⁸  but now I have become two camps.

Genesis 33:13

33:13 But Jacob ⁹  said to him, “My lord knows that the children are young, ¹⁰  and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. ¹¹  If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

Genesis 38:26

38:26 Judah recognized them and said, “She is more upright ¹²  than I am, because I wouldn’t give her to Shelah my son.” He did not have sexual relations with her ¹³  again.

Genesis 44:17

44:17 But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of ¹⁴  you may go back ¹⁵  to your father in peace.”

¹ tn Heb “And they ate and drank, he and the men who [were] with him and they spent the night.”

² tn Heb “Send me away to my master.”

³ tn Heb “this to me.”

⁴ tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”

⁵ tn Heb “the loving deeds and faithfulness” (see 24:27, 49).

⁶ tn Heb “you have done with.”

⁷ tn Heb “for with my staff.” The Hebrew word מַקֵל (maqel), traditionally translated “staff,” has been rendered as “walking stick” because a “staff” in contemporary English refers typically to the support personnel in an organization.

⁸ tn Heb “this Jordan.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “weak.”

⁹ tn Heb “and the sheep and the cattle nursing [are] upon me.”

⁹ tn Traditionally “more righteous”; cf. NCV, NRSV, NLT “more in the right.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he did not add again to know her.” Here “know” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.

¹¹ tn The words “the rest of” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

¹² tn Heb “up” (reflecting directions from their point of view – “up” to Canaan; “down” to Egypt).