Genesis 24:43

24:43 Here I am, standing by the spring. ¹  When ²  the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say, “Give me a little water to drink from your jug.”

Genesis 26:10

26:10 Then Abimelech exclaimed, “What in the world have you done to us? ³  One of the men ⁴  might easily have had sexual relations with ⁵  your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

Genesis 30:30

30:30 Indeed, ⁶  you had little before I arrived, ⁷  but now your possessions have increased many times over. ⁸  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. ⁹  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” ¹⁰ 

Genesis 43:2

43:2 When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Return, buy us a little more food.”

[24:43]  ¹ tn Heb “the spring of water.”

[24:43]  ² tn Heb “and it will be.”

[26:10]  ³ tn Heb “What is this you have done to us?” The Hebrew demonstrative pronoun “this” adds emphasis: “What in the world have you done to us?” (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 24, §118).

[26:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “people.”

[26:10]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew verb means “to lie down.” Here the expression “lie with” or “sleep with” is euphemistic for “have sexual relations with.”

[30:30]  ⁵ tn Or “for.”

[30:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “before me.”

[30:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”

[30:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “at my foot.”

[30:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”