Genesis 2:21

2:21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, ¹  and while he was asleep, ²  he took part of the man’s side ³  and closed up the place with flesh. ⁴ 

Genesis 8:11

8:11 When ⁵  the dove returned to him in the evening, there was ⁶  a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Genesis 12:7

12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants ⁷  I will give this land.” So Abram ⁸  built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 18:6

18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Take ⁹  three measures ¹⁰  of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.” ¹¹ 

Genesis 20:8

20:8 Early in the morning ¹²  Abimelech summoned ¹³  all his servants. When he told them about all these things, ¹⁴  they ¹⁵  were terrified.

Genesis 24:20

24:20 She quickly emptied ¹⁶  her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.

Genesis 28:9

28:9 So Esau went to Ishmael and married ¹⁷  Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.

Genesis 31:27

31:27 Why did you run away secretly ¹⁸  and deceive me? ¹⁹  Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps? ²⁰ 

Genesis 35:2

35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. ²¹  Purify yourselves and change your clothes. ²² 

Genesis 41:21

41:21 When they had eaten them, ²³  no one would have known ²⁴  that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

Genesis 45:4

45:4 Joseph said to his brothers, “Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said, “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

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 ²⁵  because of the famine.

Genesis 48:1

Manasseh and Ephraim

48:1 After these things Joseph was told, ²⁶  “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

[2:21]  ¹ tn Heb “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man.”

[2:21]  ² tn Heb “and he slept.” In the sequence the verb may be subordinated to the following verb to indicate a temporal clause (“while…”).

[2:21]  ³ tn Traditionally translated “rib,” the Hebrew word actually means “side.” The Hebrew text reads, “and he took one from his sides,” which could be rendered “part of his sides.” That idea may fit better the explanation by the man that the woman is his flesh and bone.

[2:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “closed up the flesh under it.”

[8:11]  ⁵ tn The clause introduced by vav (ו) consecutive is translated as a temporal clause subordinated to the following clause.

[8:11]  ⁶ tn The deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) draws attention to the olive leaf. It invites readers to enter into the story, as it were, and look at the olive leaf with their own eyes.

[12:7]  ⁹ tn The same Hebrew term זֶרַע (zera’) may mean “seed” (for planting), “offspring” (occasionally of animals, but usually of people), or “descendants” depending on the context.

[12:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been supplied in the translation for clarification.

[18:6]  ¹³ tn The word “take” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text the sentence lacks a verb other than the imperative “hurry.” The elliptical structure of the language reflects Abraham’s haste to get things ready quickly.

[18:6]  ¹⁴ sn Three measures (Heb “three seahs”) was equivalent to about twenty quarts (twenty-two liters) of flour, which would make a lot of bread. The animal prepared for the meal was far more than the three visitors needed. This was a banquet for royalty. Either it had been a lonely time for Abraham and the presence of visitors made him very happy, or he sensed this was a momentous visit.

[18:6]  ¹⁵ sn The bread was the simple, round bread made by bedouins that is normally prepared quickly for visitors.

[20:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “And Abimelech rose early in the morning and he summoned.”

[20:8]  ¹⁸ tn The verb קָרָא (qara’) followed by the preposition לְ (lamed) means “to summon.”

[20:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “And he spoke all these things in their ears.”

[20:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the men.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “they” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[24:20]  ²¹ tn Heb “and she hurried and emptied.”

[28:9]  ²⁵ tn Heb “took for a wife.”

[31:27]  ²⁹ tn Heb “Why did you hide in order to flee?” The verb “hide” and the infinitive “to flee” form a hendiadys, the infinitive becoming the main verb and the other the adverb: “flee secretly.”

[31:27]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and steal me.”

[31:27]  ³¹ tn Heb “And [why did] you not tell me so I could send you off with joy and with songs, with a tambourine and with a harp?”

[35:2]  ³³ tn Heb “which are in your midst.”

[35:2]  ³⁴ sn The actions of removing false gods, becoming ritually clean, and changing garments would become necessary steps in Israel when approaching the Lord in worship.

[41:21]  ³⁷ tn Heb “when they went inside them.”

[41:21]  ³⁸ tn Heb “it was not known.”

[47:13]  ⁴¹ 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.

[48:1]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “and one said.” With no expressed subject in the Hebrew text, the verb can be translated with the passive voice.