Genesis 27:12

27:12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him ¹  and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”

Genesis 27:22

27:22 So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”

Genesis 31:34

31:34 (Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle ²  and sat on them.) ³  Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them. ⁴ 

Genesis 31:37

31:37 When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? ⁵  Set it here before my relatives and yours, ⁶  and let them settle the dispute between the two of us! ⁷ 

[27:12]  ¹ tn Heb “Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes like a mocker.” The Hebrew expression “I will be in his eyes like” means “I would appear to him as.”

[31:34]  ² tn The “camel’s saddle” was probably some sort of basket-saddle, a cushioned saddle with a basket bound on. Cf. NAB “inside a camel cushion.”

[31:34]  ³ tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by a vav [ו] conjunction) provides another parenthetical statement necessary to the storyline.

[31:34]  ⁴ tn The word “them” has been supplied in the translation for clarification.

[31:37]  ³ tn Heb “what did you find from all the goods of your house?”

[31:37]  ⁴ tn Heb “your relatives.” The word “relatives” has not been repeated in the translation here for stylistic reasons.

[31:37]  ⁵ tn Heb “that they may decide between us two.”