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 22:19

22:19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together ⁵  for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed. ⁶ 

Genesis 37:35

37:35 All his sons and daughters stood by ⁷  him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” ⁸  So Joseph’s ⁹  father wept for him.

Genesis 43:15

43:15 So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt ¹⁰  and stood before Joseph.

[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.

[22:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they arose and went together.”

[22:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “and Abraham stayed in Beer Sheba. This has been translated as a relative clause for stylistic reasons.

[37:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “arose, stood”; which here suggests that they stood by him in his time of grief.

[37:35]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he said, ‘Indeed I will go down to my son mourning to Sheol.’” Sheol was viewed as the place where departed spirits went after death.

[37:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[43:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “they arose and went down to Egypt.” The first verb has an adverbial function and emphasizes that they departed right away.