Genesis 24:53

24:53 Then he ¹  brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

Genesis 29:18

29:18 Since Jacob had fallen in love with ²  Rachel, he said, “I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 31:41

31:41 This was my lot ³  for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave ⁴  for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

Exodus 22:16-17

Moral and Ceremonial Laws

22:16 ⁵ “If a man seduces a virgin ⁶  who is not engaged ⁷  and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow ⁸  her to be his wife. 22:17 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

22:28 Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes ⁹  her and they are discovered. 22:29 The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 22:1

Laws Concerning Preservation of Life

22:1 When you see ¹⁰  your neighbor’s ¹¹  ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; ¹²  you must return it without fail ¹³  to your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 18:1-2

Provision for Priests and Levites

18:1 The Levitical priests ¹⁴  – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance. ¹⁵  18:2 They ¹⁶  will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; ¹⁷  the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

Deuteronomy 3:14

3:14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites ¹⁸  and Maacathites ¹⁹  (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, ²⁰  which it retains to this very day.)

Hosea 3:2

3:2 So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley ²¹  to purchase her.

Matthew 14:17

14:17 They ²²  said to him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.”

[24:53]  ¹ tn Heb “the servant”; the noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[29:18]  ² tn Heb “Jacob loved.”

[31:41]  ³ tn Heb “this to me.”

[31:41]  ⁴ tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”

[22:16]  ⁵ sn The second half of the chapter records various laws of purity and justice. Any of them could be treated in an expository way, but in the present array they offer a survey of God’s righteous standards: Maintain the sanctity of marriage (16-17); maintain the purity of religious institutions (18-20), maintain the rights of human beings (21-28), maintain the rights of Yahweh (29-31).

[22:16]  ⁶ tn This is the word בְּתוּלָה (bÿtulah); it describes a young woman who is not married or a young woman engaged to be married; in any case, she is presumed to be a virgin.

[22:16]  ⁷ tn Or “pledged” for marriage.

[22:16]  ⁸ tn The verb מָהַר (mahar) means “pay the marriage price,” and the related noun is the bride price. B. Jacob says this was a proposal gift and not a purchase price (Exodus, 700). This is the price paid to her parents, which allowed for provision should there be a divorce. The amount was usually agreed on by the two families, but the price was higher for a pure bride from a noble family. Here, the one who seduces her must pay it, regardless of whether he marries her or not.

[22:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “lies with.”

[22:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you must not see,” but, if translated literally into English, the statement is misleading.

[22:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “brother’s” (also later in this verse). In this context it is not limited to one’s siblings, however; cf. NAB “your kinsman’s.”

[22:1]  ¹² tn Heb “hide yourself.”

[22:1]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with the words “without fail.”

[18:1]  ¹⁴ tn The MT places the terms “priests” and “Levites” in apposition, thus creating an epexegetical construction in which the second term qualifies the first, i.e., “Levitical priests.” This is a way of asserting their legitimacy as true priests. The Syriac renders “to the priest and to the Levite,” making a distinction between the two, but one that is out of place here.

[18:1]  ¹⁵ sn Of his inheritance. This is a figurative way of speaking of the produce of the land the Lord will give to his people. It is the Lord’s inheritance, but the Levites are allowed to eat it since they themselves have no inheritance among the other tribes of Israel.

[18:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he” (and throughout the verse).

[18:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “brothers,” but not referring to actual siblings. Cf. NASB “their countrymen”; NRSV “the other members of the community.”

[3:14]  ¹⁸ sn Geshurites. Geshur was a city and its surrounding area somewhere northeast of Bashan (cf. Josh 12:5 ; 13:11, 13). One of David’s wives was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (cf. 2 Sam 13:37; 15:8; 1 Chr 3:2).

[3:14]  ¹⁹ sn Maacathites. These were the people of a territory southwest of Mount Hermon on the Jordan River. The name probably has nothing to do with David’s wife from Geshur (see note on “Geshurites” earlier in this verse).

[3:14]  ²⁰ sn Havvoth-Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the area by conquest.

[3:2]  ²¹ tc The LXX reads “a homer of barley and a measure of wine,” a reading followed by some English translations (e.g., NRSV, NLT).

[14:17]  ²² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.