Genesis 32:16

32:16 He entrusted them to ¹  his servants, who divided them into herds. ²  He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

Genesis 41:37-38

41:37 This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials. ³  41:38 So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, ⁴  one in whom the Spirit of God is present?” ⁵ 

Genesis 44:19

44:19 My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

Genesis 40:20

40:20 On the third day it was Pharaoh’s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He “lifted up” ⁶  the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

Genesis 20:8

20:8 Early in the morning ⁷  Abimelech summoned ⁸  all his servants. When he told them about all these things, ⁹  they ¹⁰  were terrified.

Genesis 41:10

41:10 Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards – me and the chief baker.

Genesis 45:16

45:16 Now it was reported ¹¹  in the household of Pharaoh, “Joseph’s brothers have arrived.” It pleased ¹²  Pharaoh and his servants.

Genesis 50:2

50:2 Joseph instructed the physicians in his service ¹³  to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.

[32:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and he put them in the hand of.”

[32:16]  ² tn Heb “a herd, a herd, by itself,” or “each herd by itself.” The distributive sense is expressed by repetition.

[41:37]  ³ tn Heb “and the matter was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.”

[41:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “like this,” but the referent could be misunderstood to be a man like that described by Joseph in v. 33, rather than Joseph himself. For this reason the proper name “Joseph” has been supplied in the translation.

[41:38]  ⁶ tn The rhetorical question expects the answer “No, of course not!”

[40:20]  ⁷ tn The translation puts the verb in quotation marks because it is used rhetorically here and has a double meaning. With respect to the cup bearer it means “reinstate” (see v. 13), but with respect to the baker it means “decapitate” (see v. 19).

[20:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “And Abimelech rose early in the morning and he summoned.”

[20:8]  ¹⁰ tn The verb קָרָא (qara’) followed by the preposition לְ (lamed) means “to summon.”

[20:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And he spoke all these things in their ears.”

[20:8]  ¹² tn Heb “the men.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “they” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[45:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the sound was heard.”

[45:16]  ¹² tn Heb “was good in the eyes of.”

[50:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “his servants the physicians.”