Genesis 1:31

1:31 God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! ¹  There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 19:3

19:3 But he urged ²  them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

Genesis 20:8

20:8 Early in the morning ³  Abimelech summoned ⁴  all his servants. When he told them about all these things, ⁵  they ⁶  were terrified.

Genesis 24:16

24:16 Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. ⁷  She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

Genesis 24:35

24:35 “The Lord has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. ⁸  The Lord ⁹  has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 27:34

27:34 When Esau heard ¹⁰  his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. ¹¹  He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

Genesis 32:7

32:7 Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.

Genesis 34:12

34:12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, ¹²  and I’ll give ¹³  whatever you ask ¹⁴  of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

Genesis 41:31

41:31 The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered ¹⁵  because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe. ¹⁶ 

Genesis 41:49

41:49 Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, ¹⁷  until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

Genesis 47:13

47:13 But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away ¹⁸  because of the famine.

Genesis 50:10

50:10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad ¹⁹  on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. ²⁰  There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

[1:31]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text again uses הִנֵּה (hinneh) for the sake of vividness. It is a particle that goes with the gesture of pointing, calling attention to something.

[19:3]  ² tn The Hebrew verb פָּצַר (patsar, “to press, to insist”) ironically foreshadows the hostile actions of the men of the city (see v. 9, where the verb also appears). The repetition of the word serves to contrast Lot to his world.

[20:8]  ³ tn Heb “And Abimelech rose early in the morning and he summoned.”

[20:8]  ⁴ tn The verb קָרָא (qara’) followed by the preposition לְ (lamed) means “to summon.”

[20:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “And he spoke all these things in their ears.”

[20:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “the men.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “they” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[24:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “And the young woman was very good of appearance, a virgin, and a man she had not known.” Some argue that the Hebrew noun translated “virgin” (בְּתוּלָה, bÿtulah) is better understood in a general sense, “young woman” (see Joel 1:8, where the word appears to refer to one who is married). In this case the circumstantial clause (“and a man she had not known”) would be restrictive, rather than descriptive. If the term actually means “virgin,” one wonders why the circumstantial clause is necessary (see Judg 21:12 as well). Perhaps the repetition emphasizes her sexual purity as a prerequisite for her role as the mother of the covenant community.

[24:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “great.” In this context the statement refers primarily to Abraham’s material wealth, although reputation and influence are not excluded.

[24:35]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he.” The referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:34]  ⁶ tn The temporal clause is introduced with the temporal indicator and has the infinitive as its verb.

[27:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he yelled [with] a great and bitter yell to excess.”

[34:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “Make very great upon me the bride price and gift.” The imperatives are used in a rhetorical manner. Shechem’s point is that he will pay the price, no matter how expensive it might be.

[34:12]  ⁸ tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.

[34:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “say.”

[41:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “known.”

[41:31]  ⁹ tn Or “heavy.”

[41:49]  ⁹ tn Heb “and Joseph gathered grain like the sand of the sea, multiplying much.” To emphasize the vast amount of grain he stored up, the Hebrew text modifies the verb “gathered” with an infinitive absolute and an adverb.

[47:13]  ¹⁰ tn The verb לַהַה (lahah, = לָאָה, la’ah) means “to faint, to languish”; it figuratively describes the land as wasting away, drooping, being worn out.

[50:10]  ¹¹ sn The location of the threshing floor of Atad is not certain. The expression the other side of the Jordan could refer to the eastern or western bank, depending on one’s perspective. However, it is commonly used in the OT for Transjordan. This would suggest that the entourage came up the Jordan Valley and crossed into the land at Jericho, just as the Israelites would in the time of Joshua.

[50:10]  ¹² tn Heb “and they mourned there [with] very great and heavy mourning.” The cognate accusative, as well as the two adjectives and the adverb, emphasize the degree of their sorrow.