Genesis 20:8

20:8 Early in the morning ¹  Abimelech summoned ²  all his servants. When he told them about all these things, ³  they ⁴  were terrified.

Genesis 28:18

28:18 Early ⁵  in the morning Jacob ⁶  took the stone he had placed near his head ⁷  and set it up as a sacred stone. ⁸  Then he poured oil on top of it.

Genesis 31:55

31:55 (32:1) ⁹  Early in the morning Laban kissed ¹⁰  his grandchildren ¹¹  and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home. ¹² 

[20:8]  ¹ tn Heb “And Abimelech rose early in the morning and he summoned.”

[20:8]  ² tn The verb קָרָא (qara’) followed by the preposition לְ (lamed) means “to summon.”

[20:8]  ³ tn Heb “And he spoke all these things in their ears.”

[20:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “the men.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “they” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[28:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he got up early…and he took.”

[28:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:18]  ⁷ tn See the note on this phrase in v. 11.

[28:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “standing stone.”

[31:55]  ⁹ sn Beginning with 31:55, the verse numbers in the English Bible through 32:32 differ by one from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 31:55 ET = 32:1 HT, 32:1 ET = 32:2 HT, etc., through 32:32 ET = 32:33 HT. From 33:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[31:55]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and Laban got up early in the morning and he kissed.”

[31:55]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his sons.”

[31:55]  ¹² tn Heb “to his place.”