Genesis 18:16

Abraham Pleads for Sodom

18:16 When the men got up to leave, ¹  they looked out over ²  Sodom. (Now ³  Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.) ⁴ 

Genesis 19:28

19:28 He looked out toward ⁵  Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. ⁶  As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace. ⁷ 

Genesis 26:8

26:8 After Isaac ⁸  had been there a long time, ⁹  Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed ¹⁰  Isaac caressing ¹¹  his wife Rebekah.

[18:16]  ¹ tn Heb “And the men arose from there.”

[18:16]  ² tn Heb “toward the face of.”

[18:16]  ³ tn The disjunctive parenthetical clause sets the stage for the following speech.

[18:16]  ⁴ tn The Piel of שָׁלַח (shalakh) means “to lead out, to send out, to expel”; here it is used in the friendly sense of seeing the visitors on their way.

[19:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[19:28]  ⁶ tn Or “all the land of the plain”; Heb “and all the face of the land of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “And he saw, and look, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.”

[26:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Isaac) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[26:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and it happened when the days were long to him there.”

[26:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “look, Isaac.” By the use of the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”), the narrator invites the audience to view the scene through Abimelech’s eyes.

[26:8]  ¹² tn Or “fondling.”