Genesis 18:29-30

18:29 Abraham ¹  spoke to him again, ²  “What if forty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

18:30 Then Abraham ³  said, “May the Lord not be angry ⁴  so that I may speak! ⁵  What if thirty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Genesis 30:30

30:30 Indeed, ⁶  you had little before I arrived, ⁷  but now your possessions have increased many times over. ⁸  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. ⁹  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” ¹⁰ 

[18:29]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:29]  ² tn The construction is a verbal hendiadys – the preterite (“he added”) is combined with an adverb “yet” and an infinitive “to speak.”

[18:30]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “let it not be hot to the Lord.” This is an idiom which means “may the Lord not be angry.”

[18:30]  ⁵ tn After the jussive, the cohortative indicates purpose/result.

[30:30]  ⁵ tn Or “for.”

[30:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “before me.”

[30:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”

[30:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “at my foot.”

[30:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”