Genesis 27:19

27:19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up ¹  and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.” ² 

Genesis 27:30

27:30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left ³  his father’s ⁴  presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. ⁵ 

Genesis 27:41

27:41 So Esau hated ⁶  Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. ⁷  Esau said privately, ⁸  “The time ⁹  of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill ¹⁰  my brother Jacob!”

Genesis 31:18

31:18 He took ¹¹  away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac. ¹² 

Genesis 35:22

35:22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with ¹³  Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

Genesis 37:2

37:2 This is the account of Jacob.

Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, ¹⁴  was taking care of ¹⁵  the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster ¹⁶  working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. ¹⁷  Joseph brought back a bad report about them ¹⁸  to their father.

Genesis 37:22

37:22 Reuben continued, ¹⁹  “Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” ²⁰  (Reuben said this ²¹  so he could rescue Joseph ²²  from them ²³  and take him back to his father.)

Genesis 42:37

42:37 Then Reuben said to his father, “You may ²⁴  put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care ²⁵  and I will bring him back to you.”

Genesis 43:8

43:8 Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. ²⁶  Then we will live ²⁷  and not die – we and you and our little ones.

Genesis 46:31

46:31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, ²⁸  ‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

Genesis 48:19

48:19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude ²⁹  of nations.”

[27:19]  ¹ tn Heb “get up and sit.” This may mean simply “sit up,” or it may indicate that he was to get up from his couch and sit at a table.

[27:19]  ² tn Heb “so that your soul may bless me.” These words, though not reported by Rebekah to Jacob (see v. 7) accurately reflect what Isaac actually said to Esau (see v. 4). Perhaps Jacob knew more than Rebekah realized, but it is more likely that this was an idiom for sincere blessing with which Jacob was familiar. At any rate, his use of the precise wording was a nice, convincing touch.

[27:30]  ³ tn The use of the infinitive absolute before the finite form of the verb makes the construction emphatic.

[27:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “the presence of Isaac his father.” The repetition of the proper name (“Isaac”) was

[27:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Esau his brother came from his hunt.”

[27:41]  ⁵ tn Or “bore a grudge against” (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV). The Hebrew verb שָׂטַם (satam) describes persistent hatred.

[27:41]  ⁶ tn Heb “because of the blessing which his father blessed him.”

[27:41]  ⁷ tn Heb “said in his heart.” The expression may mean “said to himself.” Even if this is the case, v. 42 makes it clear that he must have shared his intentions with someone, because the news reached Rebekah.

[27:41]  ⁸ tn Heb “days.”

[27:41]  ⁹ tn The cohortative here expresses Esau’s determined resolve to kill Jacob.

[31:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “drove,” but this is subject to misunderstanding in contemporary English.

[31:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he led away all his cattle and all his moveable property which he acquired, the cattle he obtained, which he acquired in Paddan Aram to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.”

[35:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “and Reuben went and lay with.” The expression “lay with” is a euphemism for having sexual intercourse.

[37:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a son of seventeen years.” The word “son” is in apposition to the name “Joseph.”

[37:2]  ¹² tn Or “tending”; Heb “shepherding” or “feeding.”

[37:2]  ¹³ tn Or perhaps “a helper.” The significance of this statement is unclear. It may mean “now the lad was with,” or it may suggest Joseph was like a servant to them.

[37:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he [was] a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father.”

[37:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “their bad report.” The pronoun is an objective genitive, specifying that the bad or damaging report was about the brothers.

[37:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “and Reuben said to them.”

[37:22]  ¹⁴ sn The verbs translated shed, throw, and lay sound alike in Hebrew; the repetition of similar sounds draws attention to Reuben’s words.

[37:22]  ¹⁵ tn The words “Reuben said this” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[37:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “from their hands” (cf. v. 21). This expression has been translated as “them” here for stylistic reasons.

[42:37]  ¹⁵ tn The nuance of the imperfect verbal form is permissive here.

[42:37]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “my hand.”

[43:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and we will rise up and we will go.” The first verb is adverbial and gives the expression the sense of “we will go immediately.”

[43:8]  ¹⁸ tn After the preceding cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form (either imperfect or cohortative) with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or result.

[46:31]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “tell Pharaoh and say to him.”

[48:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “fullness.”