Genesis 8:17

8:17 Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out ¹  every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase ²  and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!” ³ 

Genesis 32:11

32:11 Rescue me, ⁴  I pray, from the hand ⁵  of my brother Esau, ⁶  for I am afraid he will come ⁷  and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children. ⁸ 

Leviticus 22:28

22:28 You must not slaughter an ox or a sheep and its young ⁹  on the same day. ¹⁰ 

Proverbs 12:10

12:10 A righteous person cares for ¹¹  the life of his animal,

but even the most compassionate acts ¹²  of the wicked are cruel.

Hosea 10:14

Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel

10:14 The roar of battle will rise against your people;

all your fortresses will be devastated,

just as Shalman devastated ¹³  Beth Arbel on the day of battle,

when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.

[8:17]  ¹ tn The words “bring out” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:17]  ² tn Following the Hiphil imperative, “bring out,” the three perfect verb forms with vav (ו) consecutive carry an imperatival nuance. For a discussion of the Hebrew construction here and the difficulty of translating it into English, see S. R. Driver, A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew, 124-25.

[8:17]  ³ tn Heb “and let them swarm in the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

[32:11]  ⁴ tn The imperative has the force of a prayer here, not a command.

[32:11]  ⁵ tn The “hand” here is a metonymy for “power.”

[32:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau.”

[32:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “for I am afraid of him, lest he come.”

[32:11]  ⁸ sn Heb “me, [the] mother upon [the] sons.” The first person pronoun “me” probably means here “me and mine,” as the following clause suggests.

[22:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “And an ox or a sheep, it and its son, you shall not slaughter.”

[22:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in one day.”

[12:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “knows”; NLT “concerned for the welfare of.” The righteous take care of animals, not just people.

[12:10]  ¹² tn Heb “but the mercies.” The additional words appear in the translation for the sake of clarification. The line can be interpreted in two ways: (1) when the wicked exhibit a kind act, they do it in a cruel way, or (2) even the kindest of their acts is cruel by all assessments, e.g., stuffing animals with food to fatten them for market – their “kindness” is driven by ulterior motives (J. H. Greenstone, Proverbs, 129).

[10:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “as the devastation of Shalman.” The genitive noun שַׁלְמַן (shalman, “Shalman”) functions as a subjective genitive: “as Shalman devastated [Beth Arbel].”