Genesis 20:3

20:3 But God appeared ¹  to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead ²  because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” ³ 

Genesis 31:10

31:10 “Once ⁴  during breeding season I saw ⁵  in a dream that the male goats mating with ⁶  the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

[20:3]  ¹ tn Heb “came.”

[20:3]  ² tn Heb “Look, you [are] dead.” The Hebrew construction uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with a second person pronominal particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with by the participle. It is a highly rhetorical expression.

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “and she is owned by an owner.” The disjunctive clause is causal or explanatory in this case.

[31:10]  ⁴ tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator, “and it happened at the time of.”

[31:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the time of the breeding of the flock I lifted up my eyes and I saw.”

[31:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.