Genesis 24:51

24:51 Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become ¹  the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.” ² 

Genesis 27:13

27:13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, ³  my son! Just obey me! ⁴  Go and get them for me!”

Genesis 12:19

12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her ⁵  to be my wife? ⁶  Here is your wife! ⁷  Take her and go!” ⁸ 

Genesis 22:2

22:2 God ⁹  said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac ¹⁰  – and go to the land of Moriah! ¹¹  Offer him up there as a burnt offering ¹²  on one of the mountains which I will indicate to ¹³  you.”

[24:51]  ¹ tn Following the imperatives, the jussive with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.

[24:51]  ² tn Heb “as the Lord has spoken.”

[27:13]  ³ tn Heb “upon me your curse.”

[27:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “only listen to my voice.”

[12:19]  ⁵ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive here expresses consequence.

[12:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “to me for a wife.”

[12:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look, your wife!”

[12:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “take and go.”

[22:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:2]  ⁸ sn Take your son…Isaac. The instructions are very clear, but the details are deliberate. With every additional description the commandment becomes more challenging.

[22:2]  ⁹ sn There has been much debate over the location of Moriah; 2 Chr 3:1 suggests it may be the site where the temple was later built in Jerusalem.

[22:2]  ¹⁰ sn A whole burnt offering signified the complete surrender of the worshiper and complete acceptance by God. The demand for a human sacrifice was certainly radical and may have seemed to Abraham out of character for God. Abraham would have to obey without fully understanding what God was about.

[22:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “which I will say to.”