Genesis 24:30

24:30 When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring ¹  and heard his sister Rebekah say, ²  “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing ³  by the camels near the spring.

Genesis 27:42

27:42 When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, ⁴  she quickly summoned ⁵  her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you. ⁶ 

Genesis 31:1

Jacob’s Flight from Laban

31:1 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining, ⁷  “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich ⁸  at our father’s expense!” ⁹ 

Genesis 45:27

45:27 But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, ¹⁰  and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

[24:30]  ¹ tn Heb “And it was when he saw the nose ring and the bracelets on the arms of his sister.” The word order is altered in the translation for the sake of clarity.

[24:30]  ² tn Heb “and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying.”

[24:30]  ³ tn Heb “and look, he was standing.” The disjunctive clause with the participle following the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) invites the audience to view the scene through Laban’s eyes.

[27:42]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah.”

[27:42]  ⁵ tn Heb “she sent and called for.”

[27:42]  ⁶ tn Heb “is consoling himself with respect to you to kill you.” The only way Esau had of dealing with his anger at the moment was to plan to kill his brother after the death of Isaac.

[31:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying.”

[31:1]  ⁸ sn The Hebrew word translated “gotten rich” (כָּבוֹד, cavod) has the basic idea of “weight.” If one is heavy with possessions, then that one is wealthy (13:2). Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph all became wealthy when they left the promised land. Jacob’s wealth foreshadows what will happen to Israel when they leave the land of Egypt (Exod 12:35-38).

[31:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “and from that which belonged to our father he has gained all this wealth.”

[45:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they spoke to him all the words of Joseph which he had spoke to them.”