Genesis 18:7

18:7 Then Abraham ran to the herd and chose a fine, tender calf, and gave it to a servant, ¹  who quickly prepared it. ² 

Genesis 21:19

21:19 Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. ³  She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

Genesis 34:12

34:12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, ⁴  and I’ll give ⁵  whatever you ask ⁶  of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

Genesis 34:19

34:19 The young man did not delay in doing what they asked ⁷  because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah ⁸  badly. (Now he was more important ⁹  than anyone in his father’s household.) ¹⁰ 

Genesis 44:22

44:22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father ¹¹  will die.’ ¹² 

Genesis 44:31-32

44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us, ¹³  he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave. 44:32 Indeed, ¹⁴  your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

[18:7]  ¹ tn Heb “the young man.”

[18:7]  ² tn The construction uses the Piel preterite, “he hurried,” followed by the infinitive construct; the two probably form a verbal hendiadys: “he quickly prepared.”

[21:19]  ³ tn Heb “And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.” The referent (Hagar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[34:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “Make very great upon me the bride price and gift.” The imperatives are used in a rhetorical manner. Shechem’s point is that he will pay the price, no matter how expensive it might be.

[34:12]  ⁶ tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.

[34:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “say.”

[34:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “doing the thing.”

[34:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “Jacob’s daughter.” The proper name “Dinah” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[34:19]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew verb כָּבֵד (kaved), translated “was…important,” has the primary meaning “to be heavy,” but here carries a secondary sense of “to be important” (that is, “heavy” in honor or respect).

[34:19]  ¹⁰ tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause explains why the community would respond to him (see vv. 20-24).

[44:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the boy’s father, i.e., Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[44:22]  ¹⁰ tn The last two verbs are perfect tenses with vav consecutive. The first is subordinated to the second as a conditional clause.

[44:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”

[44:32]  ¹³ tn Or “for.”