Genesis 29:23

29:23 In the evening he brought his daughter Leah ¹  to Jacob, ²  and Jacob ³  had marital relations with her. ⁴ 

Genesis 19:1

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

19:1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while ⁵  Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. ⁶  When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

Genesis 30:16

30:16 When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep ⁷  with me because I have paid for your services ⁸  with my son’s mandrakes.” So he had marital relations ⁹  with her that night.

[29:23]  ¹ tn Heb “and it happened in the evening that he took Leah his daughter and brought her.”

[29:23]  ² tn Heb “to him”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[29:23]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[29:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “went in to her.” The expression “went in to” in this context refers to sexual intercourse, i.e., the consummation of the marriage.

[19:1]  ⁵ tn The disjunctive clause is temporal here, indicating what Lot was doing at the time of their arrival.

[19:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “sitting in the gate of Sodom.” The phrase “the gate of Sodom” has been translated “the city’s gateway” for stylistic reasons.

[30:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “must come in to me.” The imperfect verbal form has an obligatory nuance here. She has acquired him for the night and feels he is obligated to have sexual relations with her.

[30:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I have surely hired.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verbal form for emphasis. The name Issachar (see v. 18) seems to be related to this expression.

[30:16]  ¹¹ tn This is the same Hebrew verb (שָׁכַב, shakhav) translated “sleep with” in v. 15. In direct discourse the more euphemistic “sleep with” was used, but here in the narrative “marital relations” reflects more clearly the emphasis on sexual intercourse.