Genesis 31:43

31:43 Laban replied ¹  to Jacob, “These women ²  are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, ³  and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today ⁴  or the children to whom they have given birth?

Genesis 36:17

36:17 These were the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom; these were the sons ⁵  of Esau’s wife Basemath.

Genesis 37:2

37:2 This is the account of Jacob.

Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, ⁶  was taking care of ⁷  the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster ⁸  working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. ⁹  Joseph brought back a bad report about them ¹⁰  to their father.

[31:43]  ¹ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[31:43]  ² tn Heb “daughters.”

[31:43]  ³ tn Heb “children.”

[31:43]  ⁴ tn Heb “but to my daughters what can I do to these today?”

[36:17]  ⁵ tn Or “grandsons” (NIV); “descendants” (NEB).

[37:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “a son of seventeen years.” The word “son” is in apposition to the name “Joseph.”

[37:2]  ¹⁰ tn Or “tending”; Heb “shepherding” or “feeding.”

[37:2]  ¹¹ tn Or perhaps “a helper.” The significance of this statement is unclear. It may mean “now the lad was with,” or it may suggest Joseph was like a servant to them.

[37:2]  ¹² tn Heb “and he [was] a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father.”

[37:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “their bad report.” The pronoun is an objective genitive, specifying that the bad or damaging report was about the brothers.