Genesis 19:11

19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, ¹  with blindness. The men outside ²  wore themselves out trying to find the door.

Genesis 27:20

27:20 But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world ³  did you find it so quickly, ⁴  my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” ⁵  he replied. ⁶ 

Genesis 32:5

32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent ⁷  this message ⁸  to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Genesis 33:8

33:8 Esau ⁹  then asked, “What did you intend ¹⁰  by sending all these herds to meet me?” ¹¹  Jacob ¹²  replied, “To find favor in your sight, my lord.”

[19:11]  ¹ tn Heb “from the least to the greatest.”

[19:11]  ² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Sodom outside the door) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:20]  ³ tn Heb “What is this?” The enclitic pronoun “this” adds emphasis to the question, which is comparable to the English rhetorical question, “How in the world?”

[27:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “you hastened to find.” In translation the infinitive becomes the main verb and the first verb becomes adverbial.

[27:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “caused to meet before me.”

[27:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he said, ‘Because the Lord your God….’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[32:5]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn The words “this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[33:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “Who to you?”

[33:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “all this camp which I met.”

[33:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.