Genesis 15:17

15:17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch ¹  passed between the animal parts. ² 

Genesis 31:21

31:21 He left ³  with all he owned. He quickly crossed ⁴  the Euphrates River ⁵  and headed for ⁶  the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 32:16

32:16 He entrusted them to ⁷  his servants, who divided them into herds. ⁸  He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

Genesis 41:46

41:46 Now Joseph was 30 years old ⁹  when he began serving ¹⁰  Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by ¹¹  Pharaoh and was in charge of ¹²  all the land of Egypt.

[15:17]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “these pieces.”

[31:21]  ³ tn Heb “and he fled.”

[31:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “he arose and crossed.” The first verb emphasizes that he wasted no time in getting across.

[31:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “the river”; the referent (the Euphrates) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[31:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “he set his face.”

[32:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he put them in the hand of.”

[32:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “a herd, a herd, by itself,” or “each herd by itself.” The distributive sense is expressed by repetition.

[41:46]  ⁷ tn Heb “a son of thirty years.”

[41:46]  ⁸ tn Heb “when he stood before.”

[41:46]  ⁹ tn Heb “went out from before.”

[41:46]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he passed through all the land of Egypt”; this phrase is interpreted by JPS to mean that Joseph “emerged in charge of the whole land.”