Genesis 27:8

27:8 Now then, my son, do ¹  exactly what I tell you! ² 

Genesis 37:6

37:6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: ³ 

Genesis 37:21

37:21 When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph ⁴  from their hands, ⁵  saying, ⁶  “Let’s not take his life!” ⁷ 

[27:8]  ¹ tn Heb “listen to my voice.” The Hebrew idiom means “to comply; to obey.”

[27:8]  ² tn Heb “to that which I am commanding you.”

[37:6]  ³ tn Heb “hear this dream which I dreamed.”

[37:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:21]  ⁶ sn From their hands. The instigators of this plot may have been the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah (see v. 2).

[37:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he said.”

[37:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “we must not strike him down [with respect to] life.”