11:26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
19:10 So the men inside 13 reached out 14 and pulled Lot back into the house 15 as they shut the door.
1 tn Heb “fathered.”
2 sn The Pathrusites are known in Egyptian as P-to-reshi; they resided in Upper Egypt.
3 sn The Casluhites lived in Crete and eventually settled east of the Egyptian Delta, between Egypt and Canaan.
4 tn Several commentators prefer to reverse the order of the words to put this clause after the next word, since the Philistines came from Crete (where the Caphtorites lived). But the table may suggest migration rather than lineage, and the Philistines, like the Israelites, came through the Nile Delta region of Egypt. For further discussion of the origin and migration of the Philistines, see D. M. Howard, “Philistines,” Peoples of the Old Testament World, 232.
5 sn The Caphtorites resided in Crete, but in Egyptian literature Caphtor refers to “the region beyond” the Mediterranean.
3 sn The Arvadites lived in the city Arvad, located on an island near the mainland close to the river El Kebir.
4 sn The Zemarites lived in the town Sumur, north of Arka.
5 sn The Hamathites lived in Hamath on the Orontes River.
4 sn Ophir became the name of a territory in South Arabia. Many of the references to Ophir are connected with gold (e.g., 1 Kgs 9:28, 10:11, 22:48; 1 Chr 29:4; 2 Chr 8:18, 9:10; Job 22:24, 28:16; Ps 45:9; Isa 13:12).
5 sn Havilah is listed with Ham in v. 7.
5 tn The Piel of the verb חָיָה (khayah, “to live”) means “to keep alive, to preserve alive,” and in some places “to make alive.” See D. Marcus, “The Verb ‘to Live’ in Ugaritic,” JSS 17 (1972): 76-82.
6 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “the men,” referring to the angels inside Lot’s house. The word “inside” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
8 tn The Hebrew text adds “their hand.” These words have not been translated for stylistic reasons.
9 tn Heb “to them into the house.”
8 tn Heb “in order to slaughter.”
9 sn This parenthetical note about Kemuel’s descendant is probably a later insertion by the author/compiler of Genesis and not part of the original announcement.