Genesis 29:19

29:19 Laban replied, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. ¹  Stay with me.”

Genesis 13:8

13:8 Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives. ² 

Genesis 18:30

18:30 Then Abraham ³  said, “May the Lord not be angry ⁴  so that I may speak! ⁵  What if thirty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Genesis 18:32

18:32 Finally Abraham ⁶  said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

Genesis 35:17

35:17 When her labor was at its hardest, ⁷  the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.” ⁸ 

Genesis 37:27

37:27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, ⁹  for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed. ¹⁰ 

Genesis 42:22

42:22 Reuben said to them, “Didn’t I say to you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!” ¹¹ 

Genesis 46:3

46:3 He said, “I am God, ¹²  the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

Genesis 50:21

50:21 So now, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children.” Then he consoled them and spoke kindly ¹³  to them.

¹ tn Heb “Better my giving her to you than my giving her to another man.”

² tn Heb “men, brothers [are] we.” Here “brothers” describes the closeness of the relationship, but could be misunderstood if taken literally, since Abram was Lot’s uncle.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “let it not be hot to the Lord.” This is an idiom which means “may the Lord not be angry.”

⁵ tn After the jussive, the cohortative indicates purpose/result.

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn The construction uses a Hiphil infinitive, which E. A. Speiser classifies as an elative Hiphil. The contrast is with the previous Piel: there “she had hard labor,” and here, “her labor was at its hardest.” Failure to see this, Speiser notes, has led to redundant translations and misunderstandings (Genesis [AB], 273).

⁶ sn Another son. The episode recalls and fulfills the prayer of Rachel at the birth of Joseph (Gen 30:24): “may he add” another son.

⁶ tn Heb “let not our hand be upon him.”

⁷ tn Heb “listened.”

⁷ tn Heb “and also his blood, look, it is required.” God requires compensation, as it were, from those who shed innocent blood (see Gen 9:6). In other words, God exacts punishment for the crime of murder.

⁸ tn Heb “the God.”

⁹ tn Heb “spoke to their heart.”