Genesis 7:23

7:23 So the Lord ¹  destroyed ²  every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. ³  They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived. ⁴ 

Genesis 24:7

24:7 “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, ⁵  promised me with a solemn oath, ⁶  ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel ⁷  before you so that you may find ⁸  a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 42:16

42:16 One of you must go and get ⁹  your brother, while ¹⁰  the rest of you remain in prison. ¹¹  In this way your words may be tested to see if ¹²  you are telling the truth. ¹³  If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

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

² tn Heb “wiped away” (cf. NRSV “blotted out”).

³ tn Heb “from man to animal to creeping thing and to the bird of the sky.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew verb שָׁאָר (sha’ar) means “to be left over; to survive” in the Niphal verb stem. It is the word used in later biblical texts for the remnant that escapes judgment. See G. F. Hasel, “Semantic Values of Derivatives of the Hebrew Root só’r,” AUSS 11 (1973): 152-69.

⁵ tn Or “the land of my birth.”

⁶ tn Heb “and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying.”

⁷ tn Or “his messenger.”

⁸ tn Heb “before you and you will take.”

⁹ tn Heb “send from you one and let him take.” After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose.

¹⁰ tn The disjunctive clause is here circumstantial-temporal.

¹¹ tn Heb “bound.”

¹² tn The words “to see” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹³ tn Heb “the truth [is] with you.”