Genesis 26:15

26:15 So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Genesis 44:22

44:22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’

Genesis 47:12

47:12 Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

Genesis 50:14

50:14 After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.


tn Heb “and the Philistines stopped them up and filled them with dirt.”

tn Heb “he”; the referent (the boy’s father, i.e., Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn The last two verbs are perfect tenses with vav consecutive. The first is subordinated to the second as a conditional clause.