29:21 Finally Jacob said 1 to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. 2 I want to have marital relations with her.” 3
44:27 “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons. 4
20:11 Abraham replied, “Because I thought, 5 ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of 6 my wife.’
26:7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” 7 He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, 8 “The men of this place will kill me to get 9 Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”
1 tn Heb “and Jacob said.”
2 tn Heb “my days are fulfilled.”
3 tn Heb “and I will go in to her.” The verb is a cohortative; it may be subordinated to the preceding request, “that I may go in,” or it may be an independent clause expressing his desire. The verb “go in” in this context refers to sexual intercourse (i.e., the consummation of the marriage).
4 tn Heb “that two sons my wife bore to me.”
7 tn Heb “Because I said.”
8 tn Heb “over the matter of.”
10 sn Rebekah, unlike Sarah, was not actually her husband’s sister.
11 tn Heb “lest.” The words “for he thought to himself” are supplied because the next clause is written with a first person pronoun, showing that Isaac was saying or thinking this.
12 tn Heb “kill me on account of.”