Genesis 31:37

31:37 When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? ¹  Set it here before my relatives and yours, ²  and let them settle the dispute between the two of us! ³ 

Genesis 31:1

Jacob’s Flight from Laban

31:1 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining, ⁴  “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich ⁵  at our father’s expense!” ⁶ 

Genesis 26:23

26:23 From there Isaac ⁷  went up to Beer Sheba.

Genesis 26:2

26:2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; ⁸  settle down in the land that I will point out to you. ⁹ 

Genesis 22:21

22:21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), ¹⁰ 

Psalms 37:6

37:6 He will vindicate you in broad daylight,

and publicly defend your just cause. ¹¹ 

[31:37]  ¹ tn Heb “what did you find from all the goods of your house?”

[31:37]  ² tn Heb “your relatives.” The word “relatives” has not been repeated in the translation here for stylistic reasons.

[31:37]  ³ tn Heb “that they may decide between us two.”

[31:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying.”

[31:1]  ⁵ sn The Hebrew word translated “gotten rich” (כָּבוֹד, cavod) has the basic idea of “weight.” If one is heavy with possessions, then that one is wealthy (13:2). Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph all became wealthy when they left the promised land. Jacob’s wealth foreshadows what will happen to Israel when they leave the land of Egypt (Exod 12:35-38).

[31:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “and from that which belonged to our father he has gained all this wealth.”

[26:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he went up from there”; the referent (Isaac) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[26:2]  ⁸ sn Do not go down to Egypt. The words echo Gen 12:10, which reports that “Abram went down to Egypt,” but state the opposite.

[26:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “say to you.”

[22:21]  ¹⁰ sn This parenthetical note about Kemuel’s descendant is probably a later insertion by the author/compiler of Genesis and not part of the original announcement.

[37:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he will bring out like light your vindication, and your just cause like noonday.”