Genesis 30:30

30:30 Indeed, ¹  you had little before I arrived, ²  but now your possessions have increased many times over. ³  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. ⁴  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” ⁵ 

Genesis 32:10

32:10 I am not worthy of all the faithful love ⁶  you have shown ⁷  your servant. With only my walking stick ⁸  I crossed the Jordan, ⁹  but now I have become two camps.

Genesis 38:12

38:12 After some time ¹⁰  Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with ¹¹  his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Genesis 42:21

42:21 They said to one other, ¹²  “Surely we’re being punished ¹³  because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was ¹⁴  when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress ¹⁵  has come on us!”

[30:30]  ¹ tn Or “for.”

[30:30]  ² tn Heb “before me.”

[30:30]  ³ tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”

[30:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “at my foot.”

[30:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”

[32:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “the loving deeds and faithfulness” (see 24:27, 49).

[32:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “you have done with.”

[32:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “for with my staff.” The Hebrew word מַקֵל (maqel), traditionally translated “staff,” has been rendered as “walking stick” because a “staff” in contemporary English refers typically to the support personnel in an organization.

[32:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “this Jordan.”

[38:12]  ¹¹ sn After some time. There is not enough information in the narrative to know how long this was. The text says “the days increased.” It was long enough for Shelah to mature and for Tamar to realize she would not have him.

[38:12]  ¹² tn Heb “and he went up to the shearers of his sheep, he and.”

[42:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a man to his neighbor.”

[42:21]  ¹⁷ tn Or “we are guilty”; the Hebrew word can also refer to the effect of being guilty, i.e., “we are being punished for guilt.”

[42:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the distress of his soul.”

[42:21]  ¹⁹ sn The repetition of the Hebrew noun translated distress draws attention to the fact that they regard their present distress as appropriate punishment for their refusal to ignore their brother when he was in distress.