10:22 The sons of Shem were Elam, 2 Asshur, 3 Arphaxad, 4 Lud, 5 and Aram. 6
23:5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, 7
29:1 So Jacob moved on 11 and came to the land of the eastern people. 12
36:11 The sons of Eliphaz were:
Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
36:19 These were the sons of Esau (also known as Edom), and these were their chiefs.
36:22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Homam; 13 Lotan’s sister was Timna.
36:23 These were the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, 14 and Onam.
36:25 These were the children 15 of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
36:26 These were the sons of Dishon: 16 Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.
48:8 When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are these?”
49:2 “Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob;
listen to Israel, your father.
1 tn Heb “was scattered.” The verb פָּצָה (patsah, “to scatter” [Niphal, “to be scattered”]) figures prominently in story of the dispersion of humankind in chap. 11.
2 sn The Hebrew name Elam (עֵילָם, ’elam) means “highland.” The Elamites were a non-Semitic people who lived east of Babylon.
3 sn Asshur is the name for the Assyrians. Asshur was the region in which Nimrod expanded his power (see v. 11, where the name is also mentioned). When names appear in both sections of a genealogical list, it probably means that there were both Hamites and Shemites living in that region in antiquity, especially if the name is a place name.
4 sn The descendants of Arphaxad may have lived northeast of Nineveh.
5 sn Lud may have been the ancestor of the Ludbu, who lived near the Tigris River.
6 sn Aram became the collective name of the northern tribes living in the steppes of Mesopotamia and speaking Aramaic dialects.
3 tn Heb “answered Abraham saying to him.”
4 tn Heb “listen to my voice.” The Hebrew idiom means “to comply; to obey.”
5 tn Heb “to that which I am commanding you.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “and Jacob lifted up his feet.” This unusual expression suggests that Jacob had a new lease on life now that God had promised him the blessing he had so desperately tried to gain by his own efforts. The text portrays him as having a new step in his walk.
7 tn Heb “the land of the sons of the east.”
7 tn Heb “Hemam”; this is probably a variant spelling of “Homam” (1 Chr 1:39); cf. NRSV, NLT “Heman.”
8 tn This name is given as “Shephi” in 1 Chr 1:40.
9 tn Heb “sons,” but since a daughter is included in the list, the word must be translated “children.”
10 tn Heb “Dishan,” but this must be either a scribal error or variant spelling, since “Dishan” is mentioned in v. 28 (see also v. 21).
11 tn Some translate the Hebrew term “Heth” as “Hittites” here (see also Gen 23:3), but this gives the impression that these people were the classical Hittites of Anatolia. However, there is no known connection between these sons of Heth, apparently a Canaanite group (see Gen 10:15), and the Hittites of Asia Minor. See H. A. Hoffner, Jr., “Hittites,” Peoples of the Old Testament World, 152-53.