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 23:13

23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay ⁹  to you the price ¹⁰  of the field. Take it from me so that I may ¹¹  bury my dead there.”

[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.”

[23:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “give.”

[23:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “silver.”

[23:13]  ⁹ tn After the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose or result.