Genesis 18:30

18:30 Then Abraham ¹  said, “May the Lord not be angry ²  so that I may speak! ³  What if thirty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Genesis 18:32

18:32 Finally Abraham ⁴  said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

Genesis 24:36

24:36 My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him ⁵  when she was old, ⁶  and my master ⁷  has given him everything he owns.

Genesis 32:4-5

32:4 He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant ⁸  Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now. 32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent ⁹  this message ¹⁰  to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Genesis 32:18

32:18 then you must say, ¹¹  ‘They belong ¹²  to your servant Jacob. ¹³  They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. ¹⁴  In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’” ¹⁵ 

[18:30]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:30]  ² tn Heb “let it not be hot to the Lord.” This is an idiom which means “may the Lord not be angry.”

[18:30]  ³ tn After the jussive, the cohortative indicates purpose/result.

[18:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:36]  ⁷ tn Heb “to my master.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “him” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[24:36]  ⁸ tn Heb “after her old age.”

[24:36]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he.” The referent (the servant’s master, Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:4]  ¹⁰ sn Your servant. The narrative recounts Jacob’s groveling in fear before Esau as he calls his brother his “lord,” as if to minimize what had been done twenty years ago.

[32:5]  ¹³ tn Or “I am sending.” The form is a preterite with the vav consecutive; it could be rendered as an English present tense – as the Hebrew perfect/preterite allows – much like an epistolary aorist in Greek. The form assumes the temporal perspective of the one who reads the message.

[32:5]  ¹⁴ tn The words “this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[32:18]  ¹⁶ tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive; it has the nuance of an imperfect of instruction.

[32:18]  ¹⁷ tn The words “they belong” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[32:18]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to your servant, to Jacob.”

[32:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to my lord, to Esau.”

[32:18]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and look, also he [is] behind us.” The referent of the pronoun “he” (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.