Genesis 19:15

19:15 At dawn ¹  the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, ²  or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!” ³ 

Genesis 22:2

22:2 God ⁴  said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac ⁵  – and go to the land of Moriah! ⁶  Offer him up there as a burnt offering ⁷  on one of the mountains which I will indicate to ⁸  you.”

Genesis 22:13

22:13 Abraham looked up ⁹  and saw ¹⁰  behind him ¹¹  a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he ¹²  went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Genesis 31:12

31:12 Then he said, ‘Observe ¹³  that all the male goats mating with ¹⁴  the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

Genesis 35:1

The Return to Bethel

35:1 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once ¹⁵  to Bethel ¹⁶  and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” ¹⁷ 

Genesis 37:28

37:28 So when the Midianite ¹⁸  merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled ¹⁹  him ²⁰  out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites ²¹  then took Joseph to Egypt.

Genesis 41:19

41:19 Then ²²  seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows ²³  as these in all the land of Egypt!

Genesis 44:17

44:17 But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of ²⁴  you may go back ²⁵  to your father in peace.”

Genesis 45:9

45:9 Now go up to my father quickly ²⁶  and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

Genesis 46:31

46:31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, ²⁷  ‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

Genesis 50:5

50:5 ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, ²⁸  “I am about to die. Bury me ²⁹  in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”

Genesis 50:24

50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to you ³⁰  and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give ³¹  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

[19:15]  ¹ tn Heb “When dawn came up.”

[19:15]  ² tn Heb “who are found.” The wording might imply he had other daughters living in the city, but the text does not explicitly state this.

[19:15]  ³ tn Or “with the iniquity [i.e., punishment] of the city” (cf. NASB, NRSV).

[22:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:2]  ⁵ sn Take your son…Isaac. The instructions are very clear, but the details are deliberate. With every additional description the commandment becomes more challenging.

[22:2]  ⁶ sn There has been much debate over the location of Moriah; 2 Chr 3:1 suggests it may be the site where the temple was later built in Jerusalem.

[22:2]  ⁷ sn A whole burnt offering signified the complete surrender of the worshiper and complete acceptance by God. The demand for a human sacrifice was certainly radical and may have seemed to Abraham out of character for God. Abraham would have to obey without fully understanding what God was about.

[22:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “which I will say to.”

[22:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “lifted his eyes.”

[22:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “and saw, and look.” The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) draws attention to what Abraham saw and invites the audience to view the scene through his eyes.

[22:13]  ⁹ tc The translation follows the reading of the MT; a number of Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac, and Samaritan Pentateuch read “one” (אֶחָד, ’ekhad) instead of “behind him” (אַחַר, ’akhar).

[22:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Abraham”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[31:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “lift up (now) your eyes and see.”

[31:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.

[35:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “arise, go up.” The first imperative gives the command a sense of urgency.

[35:1]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[35:1]  ¹⁵ sn God is calling on Jacob to fulfill his vow he made when he fled from…Esau (see Gen 28:20-22).

[37:28]  ¹⁶ sn On the close relationship between Ishmaelites (v. 25) and Midianites, see Judg 8:24.

[37:28]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “they drew and they lifted up.” The referent (Joseph’s brothers) has been specified in the translation for clarity; otherwise the reader might assume the Midianites had pulled Joseph from the cistern (but cf. NAB).

[37:28]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Joseph” (both here and in the following clause); the proper name has been replaced both times by the pronoun “him” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[37:28]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Ishmaelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[41:19]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “And look.”

[41:19]  ²⁰ tn The word “cows” is supplied here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[44:17]  ²² tn The words “the rest of” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[44:17]  ²³ tn Heb “up” (reflecting directions from their point of view – “up” to Canaan; “down” to Egypt).

[45:9]  ²⁵ tn Heb “hurry and go up.”

[46:31]  ²⁸ tn Heb “tell Pharaoh and say to him.”

[50:5]  ³¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[50:5]  ³² tn The imperfect verbal form here has the force of a command.

[50:24]  ³⁴ tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) means “to visit,” i.e., to intervene for blessing or cursing; here Joseph announces that God would come to fulfill the promises by delivering them from Egypt. The statement is emphasized by the use of the infinitive absolute with the verb: “God will surely visit you.”

[50:24]  ³⁵ tn The words “to give” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.