Genesis 25:8

25:8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. ¹  He joined his ancestors. ² 

Genesis 26:11

26:11 So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches ³  this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” ⁴ 

Genesis 28:3

28:3 May the sovereign God ⁵  bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! ⁶  Then you will become ⁷  a large nation. ⁸ 

Genesis 47:21

47:21 Joseph ⁹  made all the people slaves ¹⁰  from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

¹ tn Heb “old and full.”

² tn Heb “And he was gathered to his people.” In the ancient Israelite view he joined his deceased ancestors in Sheol, the land of the dead.

³ tn Heb “strikes.” Here the verb has the nuance “to harm in any way.” It would include assaulting the woman or killing the man.

⁴ tn The use of the infinitive absolute before the imperfect makes the construction emphatic.

⁵ tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.

⁶ tn Heb “and make you fruitful and multiply you.” See Gen 17:6, 20 for similar terminology.

⁷ tn The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here indicates consequence. The collocation הָיָה + preposition לְ (hayah + lÿ) means “become.”

⁸ tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”

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

⁸ tc The MT reads “and the people he removed to the cities,” which does not make a lot of sense in this context. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the LXX read “he enslaved them as slaves.”