Genesis 6:17

6:17 I am about to bring ¹  floodwaters ²  on the earth to destroy ³  from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. ⁴  Everything that is on the earth will die,

Genesis 8:1

8:1 But God remembered ⁵  Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over ⁶  the earth and the waters receded.

Genesis 45:27

45:27 But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, ⁷  and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

¹ tn The Hebrew construction uses the independent personal pronoun, followed by a suffixed form of הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) and the a participle used with an imminent future nuance: “As for me, look, I am going to bring.”

² tn Heb “the flood, water.”

³ tn The verb שָׁחָת (shakhat, “to destroy”) is repeated yet again, only now in an infinitival form expressing the purpose of the flood.

⁴ tn The Hebrew construction here is different from the previous two; here it is רוּחַ חַיִּים (ruakh khayyim) rather than נֶפֶשׁ הַיָּה (nefesh khayyah) or נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים (nishmat khayyim). It refers to everything that breathes.

⁵ tn The Hebrew word translated “remembered” often carries the sense of acting in accordance with what is remembered, i.e., fulfilling covenant promises (see B. S. Childs, Memory and Tradition in Israel [SBT], especially p. 34).

⁶ tn Heb “to pass over.”

⁹ tn Heb “and they spoke to him all the words of Joseph which he had spoke to them.”