Genesis 33:13

33:13 But Jacob ¹  said to him, “My lord knows that the children are young, ²  and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. ³  If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

Genesis 34:12

34:12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, ⁴  and I’ll give ⁵  whatever you ask ⁶  of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

Genesis 42:36

42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. ⁷  Simeon is gone. ⁸  And now you want to take ⁹  Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

Genesis 50:20

50:20 As for you, you meant to harm me, ¹⁰  but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day. ¹¹ 

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “weak.”

³ tn Heb “and the sheep and the cattle nursing [are] upon me.”

⁴ tn Heb “Make very great upon me the bride price and gift.” The imperatives are used in a rhetorical manner. Shechem’s point is that he will pay the price, no matter how expensive it might be.

⁵ tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.

⁶ tn Heb “say.”

⁷ tn Heb “is not.”

⁸ tn Heb “is not.”

⁹ tn The nuance of the imperfect verbal form is desiderative here.

¹⁰ tn Heb “you devised against me evil.”

¹¹ tn Heb “God devised it for good in order to do, like this day, to preserve alive a great nation.”