Genesis 23:4

23:4 “I am a temporary settler ¹  among you. Grant ²  me ownership ³  of a burial site among you so that I may ⁴  bury my dead.” ⁵ 

Genesis 24:31

24:31 Laban said to him, ⁶  “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! ⁷  Why are you standing out here when I have prepared ⁸  the house and a place for the camels?”

Genesis 42:19

42:19 If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison ⁹  while the rest of you go ¹⁰  and take grain back for your hungry families. ¹¹ 

Genesis 44:33

44:33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

[23:4]  ¹ tn Heb “a resident alien and a settler.”

[23:4]  ² tn Heb “give,” which is used here as an idiom for “sell” (see v. 9). The idiom reflects the polite bartering that was done in the culture at the time.

[23:4]  ³ tn Or “possession.”

[23:4]  ⁴ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose.

[23:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “bury my dead out of my sight.” The last phrase “out of my sight” has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[24:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he said.” The referent (Laban) has been specified and the words “to him” supplied in the translation for clarity.

[24:31]  ⁷ sn Laban’s obsession with wealth is apparent; to him it represents how one is blessed by the Lord. Already the author is laying the foundation for subsequent events in the narrative, where Laban’s greed becomes his dominant characteristic.

[24:31]  ⁸ tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial.

[42:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “bound in the house of your prison.”

[42:19]  ¹² tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal.

[42:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “[for] the hunger of your households.”