Discovery BoxGenesis 28:15
Context28:15 I am with you! 1 I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”
Genesis 28:20--29:15
Context28:20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food 2 to eat and clothing to wear, 28:21 and I return safely to my father’s home, 3 then the Lord will become my God. 28:22 Then this stone 4 that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely 5 give you back a tenth of everything you give me.” 6
29:1 So Jacob moved on 7 and came to the land of the eastern people. 8 29:2 He saw 9 in the field a well with 10 three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now 11 a large stone covered the mouth of the well. 29:3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds 12 would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.
29:4 Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.” 29:5 So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson 13 of Nahor?” “We know him,” 14 they said. 29:6 “Is he well?” 15 Jacob asked. They replied, “He is well. 16 Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.” 29:7 Then Jacob 17 said, “Since it is still the middle of the day, 18 it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.” 19 29:8 “We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water 20 the sheep.”
29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them. 21 29:10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, 22 and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he 23 went over 24 and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban. 25 29:11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly. 26 29:12 When Jacob explained 27 to Rachel that he was a relative of her father 28 and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father. 29:13 When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob 29 told Laban how he was related to him. 30 29:14 Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” 31 So Jacob 32 stayed with him for a month. 33
29:15 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work 34 for me for nothing because you are my relative? 35 Tell me what your wages should be.”
Genesis 32:9
Context32:9 Then Jacob prayed, 36 “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said 37 to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’ 38
Genesis 35:1
Context35:1 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once 39 to Bethel 40 and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” 41
Genesis 46:2-3
Context46:2 God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night 42 and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He replied, “Here I am!” 46:3 He said, “I am God, 43 the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
Genesis 50:24
Context50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to you 44 and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give 45 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Psalms 46:1
ContextFor the music director; by the Korahites; according to the alamoth style; 47 a song.
46:1 God is our strong refuge; 48
he is truly our helper in times of trouble. 49
Psalms 50:15
Context50:15 Pray to me when you are in trouble! 50
I will deliver you, and you will honor me!” 51
Psalms 90:15
Context90:15 Make us happy in proportion to the days you have afflicted us,
in proportion to the years we have experienced 52 trouble!
[28:15] 1 tn Heb “Look, I [am] with you.” The clause is a nominal clause; the verb to be supplied could be present (as in the translation) or future, “Look, I [will be] with you” (cf. NEB).
[28:20] 2 tn Heb “bread,” although the term can be used for food in general.
[28:21] 3 tn Heb “and I return in peace to the house of my father.”
[28:22] 4 tn The disjunctive clause structure (conjunction + noun/subject) is used to highlight the statement.
[28:22] 5 tn The infinitive absolute is used before the finite verb for emphasis.
[28:22] 6 tn Heb “and all which you give to me I will surely give a tenth of it to you.” The disjunctive clause structure (conjunction + noun/object) highlights this statement as well.
[29:1] 7 tn Heb “and Jacob lifted up his feet.” This unusual expression suggests that Jacob had a new lease on life now that God had promised him the blessing he had so desperately tried to gain by his own efforts. The text portrays him as having a new step in his walk.
[29:1] 8 tn Heb “the land of the sons of the east.”
[29:2] 9 tn Heb “and he saw, and look.” As in Gen 28:12-15, the narrator uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) here and in the next clause to draw the reader into the story.
[29:2] 10 tn Heb “and look, there.”
[29:2] 11 tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by the noun with the prefixed conjunction) provides supplemental information that is important to the story.
[29:3] 12 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the shepherds) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[29:5] 14 tn Heb “and they said, ‘We know.’” The word “him” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the translation several introductory clauses throughout this section have been placed after the direct discourse they introduce for stylistic reasons as well.
[29:6] 15 tn Heb “and he said to them, ‘Is there peace to him?’”
[29:7] 17 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[29:7] 18 tn Heb “the day is great.”
[29:7] 19 tn Heb “water the sheep and go and pasture [them].” The verbal forms are imperatives, but Jacob would hardly be giving direct orders to someone else’s shepherds. The nuance here is probably one of advice.
[29:8] 20 tn The perfect verbal forms with the vav (ו) consecutive carry on the sequence begun by the initial imperfect form.
[29:9] 21 tn Heb “was a shepherdess.”
[29:10] 22 tn Heb “Laban, the brother of his mother” (twice in this verse).
[29:10] 23 tn Heb “Jacob.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[29:10] 24 tn Heb “drew near, approached.”
[29:10] 25 tn Heb “Laban, the brother of his mother.” The text says nothing initially about the beauty of Rachel. But the reader is struck by the repetition of “Laban the brother of his mother.” G. J. Wenham is no doubt correct when he observes that Jacob’s primary motive at this stage is to ingratiate himself with Laban (Genesis [WBC], 2:231).
[29:11] 26 tn Heb “and he lifted up his voice and wept.” The idiom calls deliberate attention to the fact that Jacob wept out loud.
[29:12] 28 tn Heb “that he [was] the brother of her father.”
[29:13] 29 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[29:13] 30 tn Heb “and he told to Laban all these things.” This might mean Jacob told Laban how he happened to be there, but Laban’s response (see v. 14) suggests “all these things” refers to what Jacob had previously told Rachel (see v. 12).
[29:14] 31 tn Heb “indeed, my bone and my flesh are you.” The expression sounds warm enough, but the presence of “indeed” may suggest that Laban had to be convinced of Jacob’s identity before permitting him to stay. To be one’s “bone and flesh” is to be someone’s blood relative. For example, the phrase describes the relationship between Abimelech and the Shechemites (Judg 9:2; his mother was a Shechemite); David and the Israelites (2 Sam 5:1); David and the elders of Judah (2 Sam 19:12,); and David and his nephew Amasa (2 Sam 19:13, see 2 Sam 17:2; 1 Chr 2:16-17).
[29:14] 32 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[29:14] 33 tn Heb “a month of days.”
[29:15] 34 tn The verb is the perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; the nuance in the question is deliberative.
[29:15] 35 tn Heb “my brother.” The term “brother” is used in a loose sense; actually Jacob was Laban’s nephew.
[32:9] 37 tn Heb “the one who said.”
[32:9] 38 tn Heb “I will cause good” or “I will treat well [or “favorably”].” The idea includes more than prosperity, though that is its essential meaning. Here the form is subordinated to the preceding imperative and indicates purpose or result. Jacob is reminding God of his promise in the hope that God will honor his word.
[35:1] 39 tn Heb “arise, go up.” The first imperative gives the command a sense of urgency.
[35:1] 40 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
[35:1] 41 sn God is calling on Jacob to fulfill his vow he made when he fled from…Esau (see Gen 28:20-22).
[46:2] 42 tn Heb “in visions of the night.” The plural form has the singular meaning, probably as a plural of intensity.
[50:24] 44 tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) means “to visit,” i.e., to intervene for blessing or cursing; here Joseph announces that God would come to fulfill the promises by delivering them from Egypt. The statement is emphasized by the use of the infinitive absolute with the verb: “God will surely visit you.”
[50:24] 45 tn The words “to give” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
[46:1] 46 sn Psalm 46. In this so-called “Song Of Zion” God’s people confidently affirm that they are secure because the great warrior-king dwells within Jerusalem and protects it from the nations that cause such chaos in the earth. A refrain (vv. 7, 11) concludes the song’s two major sections.
[46:1] 47 sn The meaning of the Hebrew term עֲלָמוֹת (alamoth, which means “young women”) is uncertain; perhaps it refers to a particular style of music. Cf. 1 Chr 15:20.
[46:1] 48 tn Heb “our refuge and strength,” which is probably a hendiadys meaning “our strong refuge” (see Ps 71:7). Another option is to translate, “our refuge and source of strength.”
[46:1] 49 tn Heb “a helper in times of trouble he is found [to be] greatly.” The perfect verbal form has a generalizing function here. The adverb מְאֹד (mÿ’od, “greatly”) has an emphasizing function.
[50:15] 50 tn Heb “call [to] me in a day of trouble.”
[50:15] 51 sn In vv. 7-15 the Lord makes it clear that he was not rebuking Israel because they had failed to offer sacrifices (v. 8a). On the contrary, they had been faithful in doing so (v. 8b). However, their understanding of the essence of their relationship with God was confused. Apparently they believed that he needed/desired such sacrifices and that offering them would ensure their prosperity. But the Lord owns all the animals of the world and did not need Israel’s meager sacrifices (vv. 9-13). Other aspects of the relationship were more important to the Lord. He desired Israel to be thankful for his blessings (v. 14a), to demonstrate gratitude for his intervention by repaying the vows they made to him (v. 14b), and to acknowledge their absolute dependence on him (v. 15a). Rather than viewing their sacrifices as somehow essential to God’s well-being, they needed to understand their dependence on him.
