Genesis 19:31

19:31 Later the older daughter said ¹  to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby ²  to have sexual relations with us, ³  according to the way of all the world.

Genesis 20:11

20:11 Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ⁴  ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of ⁵  my wife.’

Genesis 28:17

28:17 He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”

Genesis 31:50

31:50 If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize ⁶  that God is witness to your actions.” ⁷ 

Genesis 39:23

39:23 The warden did not concern himself ⁸  with anything that was in Joseph’s ⁹  care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.

Genesis 40:8

40:8 They told him, “We both had dreams, ¹⁰  but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph responded, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell them ¹¹  to me.”

Genesis 41:15

41:15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, ¹²  and there is no one who can interpret ¹³  it. But I have heard about you, that ¹⁴  you can interpret dreams.” ¹⁵ 

Genesis 41:39

41:39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning ¹⁶  as you are!

Genesis 41:49

41:49 Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, ¹⁷  until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

Genesis 44:31

44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us, ¹⁸  he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 45:6

45:6 For these past two years there has been famine in ¹⁹  the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

Genesis 47:13

47:13 But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away ²⁰  because of the famine.

[19:31]  ¹ tn Heb “and the firstborn said.”

[19:31]  ² tn Or perhaps “on earth,” in which case the statement would be hyperbolic; presumably there had been some men living in the town of Zoar to which Lot and his daughters had initially fled.

[19:31]  ³ tn Heb “to enter upon us.” This is a euphemism for sexual relations.

[20:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “Because I said.”

[20:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “over the matter of.”

[31:50]  ⁷ tn Heb “see.”

[31:50]  ⁸ tn Heb “between me and you.”

[39:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “was not looking at anything.”

[39:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[40:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “a dream we dreamed.”

[40:8]  ¹⁴ tn The word “them” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[41:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “dreamed a dream.”

[41:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “there is no one interpreting.”

[41:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “saying.”

[41:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “you hear a dream to interpret it,” which may mean, “you only have to hear a dream to be able to interpret it.”

[41:39]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “as discerning and wise.” The order has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[41:49]  ²² tn Heb “and Joseph gathered grain like the sand of the sea, multiplying much.” To emphasize the vast amount of grain he stored up, the Hebrew text modifies the verb “gathered” with an infinitive absolute and an adverb.

[44:31]  ²⁵ tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”

[45:6]  ²⁸ tn Heb “the famine [has been] in the midst of.”

[47:13]  ³¹ tn The verb לַהַה (lahah, = לָאָה, la’ah) means “to faint, to languish”; it figuratively describes the land as wasting away, drooping, being worn out.