Genesis 5:3

5:3 When ¹  Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

Genesis 5:19

5:19 Jared lived 800 years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 7:6

7:6 Noah ²  was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed ³  the earth.

Genesis 11:11

11:11 And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other ⁴  sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:23

11:23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:26

11:26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 17:25

17:25 his son Ishmael was thirteen years old ⁵  when he was circumcised.

Genesis 21:5

21:5 (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) ⁶ 

Genesis 26:12

26:12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, ⁷  because the Lord blessed him. ⁸ 

Genesis 29:18

29:18 Since Jacob had fallen in love with ⁹  Rachel, he said, “I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 29:20

29:20 So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. ¹⁰  But they seemed like only a few days to him ¹¹  because his love for her was so great. ¹² 

Genesis 41:1

Joseph’s Rise to Power

41:1 At the end of two full years ¹³  Pharaoh had a dream. ¹⁴  As he was standing by the Nile,

Genesis 41:29

41:29 Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.

Genesis 50:22

50:22 Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. ¹⁵  Joseph lived 110 years.

Genesis 50:26

50:26 So Joseph died at the age of 110. ¹⁶  After they embalmed him, his body ¹⁷  was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

¹ tn Heb “and Adam lived 130 years.” In the translation the verb is subordinated to the following verb, “and he fathered,” and rendered as a temporal clause.

² tn Heb “Now Noah was.” The disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + predicate nominative after implied “to be” verb) provides background information. The age of Noah receives prominence.

³ tn Heb “and the flood was water upon.” The disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) is circumstantial/temporal in relation to the preceding clause. The verb הָיָה (hayah) here carries the nuance “to come” (BDB 225 s.v. הָיָה). In this context the phrase “come upon” means “to engulf.”

³ tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “the son of thirteen years.”

⁵ tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause underscores how miraculous this birth was. Abraham was 100 years old. The fact that the genealogies give the ages of the fathers when their first son is born shows that this was considered a major milestone in one’s life (G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 2:80).

⁶ tn Heb “a hundredfold.”

⁷ tn This final clause explains why Isaac had such a bountiful harvest.

⁷ tn Heb “Jacob loved.”

⁸ tn Heb “in exchange for Rachel.”

⁹ sn But they seemed like only a few days to him. This need not mean that the time passed quickly. More likely it means that the price seemed insignificant when compared to what he was getting in the bargain.

¹⁰ tn Heb “because of his love for her.” The words “was so great” are supplied for stylistic reasons.

⁹ tn Heb “two years, days.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “was dreaming.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he and the house of his father.”

¹¹ tn Heb “son of a hundred and ten years.”

¹² tn Heb “he.”