Genesis 37:34

37:34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, ¹  and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 37:2

37:2 This is the account of Jacob.

Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, ²  was taking care of ³  the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster ⁴  working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. ⁵  Joseph brought back a bad report about them ⁶  to their father.

Genesis 6:1

God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness

6:1 When humankind ⁷  began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born ⁸  to them, ⁹ 

Genesis 18:1

Three Special Visitors

18:1 The Lord appeared to Abraham ¹⁰  by the oaks ¹¹  of Mamre while ¹²  he was sitting at the entrance ¹³  to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Jonah 3:6

3:6 When the news ¹⁴  reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

[37:34]  ¹ tn Heb “and put sackcloth on his loins.”

[37:2]  ² tn Heb “a son of seventeen years.” The word “son” is in apposition to the name “Joseph.”

[37:2]  ³ tn Or “tending”; Heb “shepherding” or “feeding.”

[37:2]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps “a helper.” The significance of this statement is unclear. It may mean “now the lad was with,” or it may suggest Joseph was like a servant to them.

[37:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he [was] a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father.”

[37:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “their bad report.” The pronoun is an objective genitive, specifying that the bad or damaging report was about the brothers.

[6:1]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text has the article prefixed to the noun. Here the article indicates the generic use of the word אָדָם (’adam): “humankind.”

[6:1]  ⁸ tn This disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) is circumstantial to the initial temporal clause. It could be rendered, “with daughters being born to them.” For another example of such a disjunctive clause following the construction וַיְהִיכִּי (vayÿhiki, “and it came to pass when”), see 2 Sam 7:1.

[6:1]  ⁹ tn The pronominal suffix is third masculine plural, indicating that the antecedent “humankind” is collective.

[18:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “terebinths.”

[18:1]  ¹² tn The disjunctive clause here is circumstantial to the main clause.

[18:1]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew noun translated “entrance” is an adverbial accusative of place.

[3:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “word” or “matter.”