Genesis 27:15

27:15 Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

Genesis 34:29

34:29 They captured as plunder¹ all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

Genesis 39:8

39:8 But he refused, saying² to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not give any thought³ to his household with me here,⁴ and everything that he owns he has put into my care.⁵

Genesis 39:11

39:11 One day⁶ he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants⁷ were there in the house.

Genesis 39:20

39:20 Joseph’s master took him and threw him into the prison,⁸ the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.⁹

Genesis 42:19

42:19 If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison¹⁰ while the rest of you go¹¹ and take grain back for your hungry families.¹²

¹tn Heb “they took captive and they plundered,” that is, “they captured as plunder.”

¹tn Heb “and he said.”

²tn Heb “know.”

³tn The word “here” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Heb “hand.” This is a metonymy for being under the control or care of Joseph.

¹tn Heb “and it was about this day.”

²tn Heb “the men of the house.”

¹tn Heb “the house of roundness,” suggesting that the prison might have been a fortress or citadel.

²sn The story of Joseph is filled with cycles and repetition: He has two dreams (chap. 37), he interprets two dreams in prison (chap. 40) and the two dreams of Pharaoh (chap. 41), his brothers make two trips to see him (chaps. 42-43), and here, for the second time (see 37:24), he is imprisoned for no good reason, with only his coat being used as evidence. For further discussion see H. Jacobsen, “A Legal Note on Potiphar’s Wife,” HTR 69 (1976): 177.

¹tn Heb “bound in the house of your prison.”

²tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal.

³tn Heb “[for] the hunger of your households.”