Genesis 29:19

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

Genesis 43:6

43:6 Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble ²  on me by telling ³  the man you had one more brother?”

Genesis 34:14

34:14 They said to them, “We cannot give ⁴  our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace ⁵  to us.

Genesis 45:22

45:22 He gave sets of clothes to each one of them, ⁶  but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes. ⁷ 

Genesis 38:25

38:25 While they were bringing her out, she sent word ⁸  to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.” ⁹  Then she said, “Identify ¹⁰  the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.”

Genesis 43:11

43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man – a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

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

² tn The verb may even have a moral connotation here, “Why did you do evil to me?”

³ tn The infinitive construct here explains how they brought trouble on Jacob.

³ tn Heb “we are not able to do this thing, to give.” The second infinitive is in apposition to the first, explaining what they are not able to do.

⁴ tn The Hebrew word translated “disgrace” usually means “ridicule; taunt; reproach.” It can also refer to the reason the condition of shame or disgrace causes ridicule or a reproach.

⁴ tn Heb “to all of them he gave, to each one, changes of outer garments.”

⁵ tn Heb “changes of outer garments.”

⁵ tn Heb “she was being brought out and she sent.” The juxtaposition of two clauses, both of which place the subject before the predicate, indicates synchronic action.

⁶ tn Heb “who these to him.”

⁷ tn Or “ recognize; note.” This same Hebrew verb (נָכַר, nakhar) is used at the beginning of v. 26, where it is translated “recognized.”