Genesis 33:8

33:8 Esau ¹  then asked, “What did you intend ²  by sending all these herds to meet me?” ³  Jacob ⁴  replied, “To find favor in your sight, my lord.”

Genesis 33:10

33:10 “No, please take them,” Jacob said. ⁵  “If I have found favor in your sight, accept ⁶  my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, ⁷  it is as if I have seen the face of God. ⁸ 

Genesis 33:15

33:15 So Esau said, “Let me leave some of my men with you.” ⁹  “Why do that?” Jacob replied. ¹⁰  “My lord has already been kind enough to me.” ¹¹ 

[33:8]  ¹ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:8]  ² tn Heb “Who to you?”

[33:8]  ³ tn Heb “all this camp which I met.”

[33:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Jacob said, ‘No, please.’” The words “take them” have been supplied in the translation for clarity, and the order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse rearranged for stylistic reasons.

[33:10]  ⁶ tn The form is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, expressing a contingent future nuance in the “then” section of the conditional sentence.

[33:10]  ⁷ tn The verbal form is the preterite with a vav (ו) consecutive, indicating result here.

[33:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “for therefore I have seen your face like seeing the face of God and you have accepted me.”

[33:15]  ⁹ tn The cohortative verbal form here indicates a polite offer of help.

[33:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he said, ‘Why this?’” The referent of the pronoun “he” (Jacob) has been specified for clarity, and the order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[33:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I am finding favor in the eyes of my lord.”