Genesis 16:5

16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You have brought this wrong on me! ¹  I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, ²  but when she realized ³  that she was pregnant, she despised me. ⁴  May the Lord judge between you and me!” ⁵ 

Genesis 22:9

22:9 When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there ⁶  and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up ⁷  his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Genesis 24:27

24:27 saying “Praised be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love ⁸  for my master! The Lord has led me ⁹  to the house ¹⁰  of my master’s relatives!” ¹¹ 

Genesis 24:32

24:32 So Abraham’s servant ¹²  went to the house and unloaded ¹³  the camels. Straw and feed were given ¹⁴  to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet. ¹⁵ 

Genesis 26:22

26:22 Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac ¹⁶  named it ¹⁷  Rehoboth, ¹⁸  saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”

Genesis 28:4

28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham ¹⁹  so that you may possess the land ²⁰  God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.” ²¹ 

Genesis 28:6

28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. ²²  As he blessed him, ²³  Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” ²⁴ 

Genesis 30:16

30:16 When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep ²⁵  with me because I have paid for your services ²⁶  with my son’s mandrakes.” So he had marital relations ²⁷  with her that night.

Genesis 30:30

30:30 Indeed, ²⁸  you had little before I arrived, ²⁹  but now your possessions have increased many times over. ³⁰  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. ³¹  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” ³² 

Genesis 40:16

40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, ³³  he said to Joseph, “I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread ³⁴  on my head.

Genesis 42:28

42:28 He said to his brothers, “My money was returned! Here it is in my sack!” They were dismayed; ³⁵  they turned trembling one to another ³⁶  and said, “What in the world has God done to us?” ³⁷ 

Genesis 45:27

45:27 But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, ³⁸  and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

Genesis 47:14

47:14 Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment ³⁹  for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s palace. ⁴⁰ 

Genesis 47:22

47:22 But he did not purchase the land of the priests because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh and they ate from their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

[16:5]  ¹ tn Heb “my wrong is because of you.”

[16:5]  ² tn Heb “I placed my female servant in your bosom.”

[16:5]  ³ tn Heb “saw.”

[16:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “I was despised in her eyes.” The passive verb has been translated as active for stylistic reasons. Sarai was made to feel supplanted and worthless by Hagar the servant girl.

[16:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “me and you.”

[22:9]  ⁶ sn Abraham built an altar there. The theme of Abraham’s altar building culminates here. He has been a faithful worshiper. Will he continue to worship when called upon to make such a radical sacrifice?

[22:9]  ⁷ sn Then he tied up. This text has given rise to an important theme in Judaism known as the Aqedah, from the Hebrew word for “binding.” When sacrifices were made in the sanctuary, God remembered the binding of Isaac, for which a substitute was offered. See D. Polish, “The Binding of Isaac,” Jud 6 (1957): 17-21.

[24:27]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his faithfulness and his commitment.”

[24:27]  ¹² tn Heb “As for me – in the way the Lord led me.”

[24:27]  ¹³ tn Here “house” is an adverbial accusative of termination.

[24:27]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “brothers.”

[24:32]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the man”; the referent (Abraham’s servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:32]  ¹⁷ tn Some translations (e.g., NEB, NASB, NRSV) understand Laban to be the subject of this and the following verbs or take the subject of this and the following verbs as indefinite (referring to an unnamed servant; e.g., NAB, NIV).

[24:32]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and [one] gave.” The verb without an expressed subject may be translated as passive.

[24:32]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.”

[26:22]  ²¹ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Isaac) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[26:22]  ²² tn Heb “and he called its name.”

[26:22]  ²³ sn The name Rehoboth (רְהֹבוֹת, rehovot) is derived from a verbal root meaning “to make room.” The name was a reminder that God had made room for them. The story shows Isaac’s patience with the opposition; it also shows how God’s blessing outdistanced the men of Gerar. They could not stop it or seize it any longer.

[28:4]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and may he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you.” The name “Abraham” is an objective genitive here; this refers to the blessing that God gave to Abraham.

[28:4]  ²⁷ tn The words “the land” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[28:4]  ²⁸ tn Heb “the land of your sojournings,” that is, the land where Jacob had been living as a resident alien, as his future descendants would after him.

[28:6]  ³¹ tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”

[28:6]  ³² tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.

[28:6]  ³³ tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”

[30:16]  ³⁶ tn Heb “must come in to me.” The imperfect verbal form has an obligatory nuance here. She has acquired him for the night and feels he is obligated to have sexual relations with her.

[30:16]  ³⁷ tn Heb “I have surely hired.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verbal form for emphasis. The name Issachar (see v. 18) seems to be related to this expression.

[30:16]  ³⁸ tn This is the same Hebrew verb (שָׁכַב, shakhav) translated “sleep with” in v. 15. In direct discourse the more euphemistic “sleep with” was used, but here in the narrative “marital relations” reflects more clearly the emphasis on sexual intercourse.

[30:30]  ⁴¹ tn Or “for.”

[30:30]  ⁴² tn Heb “before me.”

[30:30]  ⁴³ tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”

[30:30]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “at my foot.”

[30:30]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”

[40:16]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “that [the] interpretation [was] good.” The words “the first dream” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[40:16]  ⁴⁷ tn Or “three wicker baskets.” The meaning of the Hebrew noun חֹרִי (khori, “white bread, cake”) is uncertain; some have suggested the meaning “wicker” instead. Comparison with texts from Ebla suggests the meaning “pastries made with white flour” (M. Dahood, “Eblaite h¬a-rí and Genesis 40,16 h£o„rî,” BN 13 [1980]: 14-16).

[42:28]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “and their heart went out.” Since this expression is used only here, the exact meaning is unclear. The following statement suggests that it may refer to a sudden loss of emotional strength, so “They were dismayed” adequately conveys the meaning (cf. NRSV); NIV has “Their hearts sank.”

[42:28]  ⁵² tn Heb “and they trembled, a man to his neighbor.”

[42:28]  ⁵³ tn Heb “What is this God has done to us?” The demonstrative pronoun (“this”) adds emphasis to the question.

[45:27]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “and they spoke to him all the words of Joseph which he had spoke to them.”

[47:14]  ⁶¹ tn Or “in exchange.” On the use of the preposition here see BDB 90 s.v. בְּ.

[47:14]  ⁶² tn Heb “house.”