Genesis 29:21

29:21 Finally Jacob said ¹  to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. ²  I want to have marital relations with her.” ³ 

Genesis 44:27

44:27 “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons. ⁴ 

Genesis 20:11

20:11 Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ⁵  ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of ⁶  my wife.’

Genesis 26:7

26:7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” ⁷  He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, ⁸  “The men of this place will kill me to get ⁹  Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

[29:21]  ¹ tn Heb “and Jacob said.”

[29:21]  ² tn Heb “my days are fulfilled.”

[29:21]  ³ tn Heb “and I will go in to her.” The verb is a cohortative; it may be subordinated to the preceding request, “that I may go in,” or it may be an independent clause expressing his desire. The verb “go in” in this context refers to sexual intercourse (i.e., the consummation of the marriage).

[44:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “that two sons my wife bore to me.”

[20:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “Because I said.”

[20:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “over the matter of.”

[26:7]  ¹⁰ sn Rebekah, unlike Sarah, was not actually her husband’s sister.

[26:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “lest.” The words “for he thought to himself” are supplied because the next clause is written with a first person pronoun, showing that Isaac was saying or thinking this.

[26:7]  ¹² tn Heb “kill me on account of.”