Genesis 10:24

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

Genesis 4:18

4:18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father ⁴  of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

Genesis 10:15

10:15 Canaan was the father of ⁵  Sidon his firstborn, ⁶  Heth, ⁷ 

Genesis 10:8

10:8 Cush was the father of ⁸  Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

Genesis 10:13

10:13 Mizraim ⁹  was the father of ¹⁰  the Ludites, ¹¹  Anamites, ¹²  Lehabites, ¹³  Naphtuhites, ¹⁴ 

Genesis 10:21

10:21 And sons were also born ¹⁵  to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), ¹⁶  the father of all the sons of Eber.

Genesis 10:26

10:26 Joktan was the father of ¹⁷  Almodad, ¹⁸  Sheleph, ¹⁹  Hazarmaveth, ²⁰  Jerah, ²¹ 

Genesis 22:23

22:23 (Now ²²  Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Genesis 25:3

25:3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. ²³  The descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.

Genesis 46:22

46:22 These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob, fourteen in all.

Genesis 4:26

4:26 And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people ²⁴  began to worship ²⁵  the Lord.

Genesis 10:25

10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, ²⁶  and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 35:26

35:26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher.

These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

Genesis 41:50

41:50 Two sons were born to Joseph before the famine came. ²⁷  Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, was their mother. ²⁸ 

Genesis 46:27

46:27 Counting the two sons ²⁹  of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy. ³⁰ 

[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).

[4:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “and Irad fathered.”

[10:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “fathered.”

[10:15]  ⁸ sn Sidon was the foremost city in Phoenicia; here Sidon may be the name of its founder.

[10:15]  ⁹ tn Some see a reference to “Hittites” here (cf. NIV), but this seems unlikely. See the note on the phrase “sons of Heth” in Gen 23:3.

[10:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fathered.” Embedded within Cush’s genealogy is an account of Nimrod, a mighty warrior. There have been many attempts to identify him, but none are convincing.

[10:13]  ¹³ sn Mizraim is the Hebrew name for Egypt (cf. NRSV).

[10:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “fathered.”

[10:13]  ¹⁵ sn The Ludites were African tribes west of the Nile Delta.

[10:13]  ¹⁶ sn The Anamites lived in North Africa, west of Egypt, near Cyrene.

[10:13]  ¹⁷ sn The Lehabites are identified with the Libyans.

[10:13]  ¹⁸ sn The Naphtuhites lived in Lower Egypt (the Nile Delta region).

[10:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “And to Shem was born.”

[10:21]  ¹⁷ 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.

[10:26]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “fathered.”

[10:26]  ²⁰ sn The name Almodad combines the Arabic article al with modad (“friend”). Almodad was the ancestor of a South Arabian people.

[10:26]  ²¹ sn The name Sheleph may be related to Shilph, a district of Yemen; Shalph is a Yemenite tribe.

[10:26]  ²² sn The name Hazarmaveth should be equated with Hadramawt, located in Southern Arabia.

[10:26]  ²³ sn The name Jerah means “moon.”

[22:23]  ²² tn The disjunctive clause gives information that is important but parenthetical to the narrative. Rebekah would become the wife of Isaac (Gen 24:15).

[25:3]  ²⁵ sn The names Sheba and Dedan appear in Gen 10:7 as descendants of Ham through Cush and Raamah. Since these two names are usually interpreted to be place names, one plausible suggestion is that some of Abraham’s descendants lived in those regions and took names linked with it.

[4:26]  ²⁸ tn The word “people” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation. The construction uses a passive verb without an expressed subject. “To call was begun” can be interpreted to mean that people began to call.

[4:26]  ²⁹ tn Heb “call in the name.” The expression refers to worshiping the Lord through prayer and sacrifice (see Gen 12:8; 13:4; 21:33; 26:25). See G. J. Wenham, Genesis (WBC), 1:116.

[10:25]  ³¹ tn The expression “the earth was divided” may refer to dividing the land with canals, but more likely it anticipates the division of languages at Babel (Gen 11). The verb פָּלָג (palag, “separate, divide”) is used in Ps 55:9 for a division of languages.

[41:50]  ³⁴ tn Heb “before the year of the famine came.”

[41:50]  ³⁵ tn Heb “gave birth for him.”

[46:27]  ³⁷ tn The LXX reads “nine sons,” probably counting the grandsons of Joseph born to Ephraim and Manasseh (cf. 1 Chr 7:14-20).

[46:27]  ³⁸ tn Heb “And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two people; all the people belonging to the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.”