Genesis 4:19

4:19 Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Genesis 7:9

7:9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, ¹  just as God had commanded him. ² 

Genesis 29:16

29:16 (Now Laban had two daughters; ³  the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

Genesis 41:1

Joseph’s Rise to Power

41:1 At the end of two full years ⁴  Pharaoh had a dream. ⁵  As he was standing by the Nile,

Genesis 44:27

44:27 “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons. ⁶ 

¹ tn The Hebrew text of vv. 8-9a reads, “From the clean animal[s] and from the animal[s] which are not clean and from the bird[s] and everything that creeps on the ground, two two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female.”

² tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn Heb “and to Laban [there were] two daughters.” The disjunctive clause (introduced here by a conjunction and a prepositional phrase) provides supplemental material that is important to the story. Since this material is parenthetical in nature, vv. 16-17 have been set in parentheses in the translation.

¹ tn Heb “two years, days.”

² tn Heb “was dreaming.”

¹ tn Heb “that two sons my wife bore to me.”