Genesis 10:24

10:24 Arphaxad was the father of ¹  Shelah, ²  and Shelah was the father of Eber. ³ 

Genesis 11:14

11:14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

Genesis 11:16

11:16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

Genesis 10:21

10:21 And sons were also born ⁴  to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), ⁵  the father of all the sons of Eber.

Genesis 32:31

32:31 The sun rose ⁶  over him as he crossed over Penuel, ⁷  but ⁸  he was limping because of his hip.

Genesis 33:3

33:3 But Jacob ⁹  himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached ¹⁰  his brother.

Genesis 11:15

11:15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other ¹¹  sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:17

11:17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 15:17

15:17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch ¹²  passed between the animal parts. ¹³ 

Genesis 23:16

23:16 So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price ¹⁴  and weighed ¹⁵  out for him ¹⁶  the price ¹⁷  that Ephron had quoted ¹⁸  in the hearing of the sons of Heth – 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time. ¹⁹ 

[10:24]  ¹ tn Heb “fathered.”

[10:24]  ² tc The MT reads “Arphaxad fathered Shelah”; the LXX reads “Arphaxad fathered Cainan, and Cainan fathered Sala [= Shelah].” The LXX reading also appears to lie behind Luke 3:35-36.

[10:24]  ³ sn Genesis 11 traces the line of Shem through Eber (עֵבֶר, ’ever ) to Abraham the “Hebrew” (עִבְרִי, ’ivri).

[10:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “And to Shem was born.”

[10:21]  ⁵ tn Or “whose older brother was Japheth.” Some translations render Japheth as the older brother, understanding the adjective הַגָּדוֹל (haggadol, “older”) as modifying Japheth. However, in Hebrew when a masculine singular definite attributive adjective follows the sequence masculine singular construct noun + proper name, the adjective invariably modifies the noun in construct, not the proper name. Such is the case here. See Deut 11:7; Judg 1:13; 2:7; 3:9; 9:5; 2 Kgs 15:35; 2 Chr 27:3; Neh 3:30; Jer 13:9; 36:10; Ezek 10:19; 11:1.

[32:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “shone.”

[32:31]  ⁸ sn The name is spelled Penuel here, apparently a variant spelling of Peniel (see v. 30).

[32:31]  ⁹ tn The disjunctive clause draws attention to an important fact: He may have crossed the stream, but he was limping.

[33:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “until his drawing near unto his brother.” The construction uses the preposition with the infinitive construct to express a temporal clause.

[11:15]  ¹³ tn Here and in vv. 16, 19, 21, 23, 25 the word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

[15:17]  ¹⁶ sn A smoking pot with a flaming torch. These same implements were used in Mesopotamian rituals designed to ward off evil (see E. A. Speiser, Genesis [AB], 113-14).

[15:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “these pieces.”

[23:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “listened to Ephron.”

[23:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and Abraham weighed out.”

[23:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “to Ephron.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[23:16]  ²² tn Heb “silver.”

[23:16]  ²³ tn Heb “that he had spoken.” The referent (Ephron) has been specified here in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[23:16]  ²⁴ tn Heb “passing for the merchant.” The final clause affirms that the measurement of silver was according to the standards used by the merchants of the time.