Genesis 17:23

17:23 Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) ¹  and circumcised them ²  on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Genesis 22:3

22:3 Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. ³  He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out ⁴  for the place God had spoken to him about.

Genesis 38:11

38:11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, ⁵  “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” ⁶  So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Genesis 42:38

42:38 But Jacob ⁷  replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. ⁸  If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair ⁹  in sorrow to the grave.” ¹⁰ 

Genesis 47:29

47:29 The time ¹¹  for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh ¹²  and show me kindness and faithfulness. ¹³  Do not bury me in Egypt,

[17:23]  ¹ tn Heb “Ishmael his son and all born in his house and all bought with money, every male among the men of the house of Abraham.”

[17:23]  ² tn Heb “circumcised the flesh of their foreskin.” The Hebrew expression is somewhat pleonastic and has been simplified in the translation.

[22:3]  ³ tn Heb “Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey.”

[22:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “he arose and he went.”

[38:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “said.”

[38:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “Otherwise he will die, also he, like his brothers.”

[42:38]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[42:38]  ⁸ sn The expression he alone is left meant that (so far as Jacob knew) Benjamin was the only surviving child of his mother Rachel.

[42:38]  ⁹ sn The expression bring down my gray hair is figurative, using a part for the whole – they would put Jacob in the grave. But the gray head signifies a long life of worry and trouble.

[42:38]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to Sheol,” the dwelling place of the dead.

[47:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “days.”

[47:29]  ¹⁰ sn On the expression put your hand under my thigh see Gen 24:2.

[47:29]  ¹¹ tn Or “deal with me in faithful love.”