Genesis 9:4

9:4 But¹ you must not eat meat² with its life (that is,³ its blood) in it.⁴

Genesis 27:13

27:13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me,⁵ my son! Just obey me!⁶ Go and get them for me!”

Genesis 29:14

29:14 Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.”⁷ So Jacob⁸ stayed with him for a month.⁹

Genesis 34:15

34:15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become¹⁰ like us by circumcising¹¹ all your males.

Genesis 34:23

34:23 If we do so,¹² won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

Genesis 44:28

44:28 The first disappeared¹³ and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

Genesis 18:32

18:32 Finally Abraham¹⁴ said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

Genesis 20:12

20:12 What’s more,¹⁵ she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

Genesis 34:22

34:22 Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand¹⁶ that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

Genesis 7:23

7:23 So the Lord¹⁷ destroyed¹⁸ 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.¹⁹ They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.²⁰

Genesis 23:13

23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay²¹ to you the price²² of the field. Take it from me so that I may²³ bury my dead there.”

Genesis 26:9

26:9 So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really²⁴ your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”²⁵

Genesis 27:30

27:30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left²⁶ his father’s²⁷ presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.²⁸

¹tn Heb “only.”

²tn Or “flesh.”

³tn Heb “its life, its blood.” The second word is in apposition to the first, explaining what is meant by “its life.” Since the blood is equated with life, meat that had the blood in it was not to be eaten.

⁴tn The words “in it” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵tn Heb “upon me your curse.”

⁶tn Heb “only listen to my voice.”

⁹tn Heb “indeed, my bone and my flesh are you.” The expression sounds warm enough, but the presence of “indeed” may suggest that Laban had to be convinced of Jacob’s identity before permitting him to stay. To be one’s “bone and flesh” is to be someone’s blood relative. For example, the phrase describes the relationship between Abimelech and the Shechemites (Judg 9:2; his mother was a Shechemite); David and the Israelites (2 Sam 5:1); David and the elders of Judah (2 Sam 19:12,); and David and his nephew Amasa (2 Sam 19:13, see 2 Sam 17:2; 1 Chr 2:16-17).

¹⁰tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹tn Heb “a month of days.”

¹³tn Heb “if you are like us.”

¹⁴tn The infinitive here explains how they would become like them.

¹⁷tn The words “If we do so” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

²¹tn Heb “went forth from me.”

²⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁹tn Heb “but also.”

³³tn Heb “when every one of our males is circumcised.”

³⁷tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³⁸tn Heb “wiped away” (cf. NRSV “blotted out”).

³⁹tn Heb “from man to animal to creeping thing and to the bird of the sky.”

⁴⁰tn 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.

⁴¹tn Heb “give.”

⁴²tn Heb “silver.”

⁴³tn After the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose or result.

⁴⁵tn Heb “Surely, look!” See N. H. Snaith, “The meaning of Hebrew ‘ak,” VT 14 (1964): 221-25.

⁴⁶tn Heb “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’” Since the verb “said” probably means “said to myself” (i.e., “thought”) here, the direct discourse in the Hebrew statement has been converted to indirect discourse in the translation. In addition the simple prepositional phrase “on account of her” has been clarified in the translation as “to get her” (cf. v. 7).

⁴⁹tn The use of the infinitive absolute before the finite form of the verb makes the construction emphatic.

⁵⁰tn Heb “the presence of Isaac his father.” The repetition of the proper name (“Isaac”) was

⁵¹tn Heb “and Esau his brother came from his hunt.”