Genesis 34:26
Context34:26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.
Genesis 49:6
Context49:6 O my soul, do not come into their council,
do not be united to their assembly, my heart, 1
for in their anger they have killed men,
and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.
Genesis 4:25
Context4:25 And Adam had marital relations 2 with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, “God has given 3 me another child 4 in place of Abel because Cain killed him.”
[49:6] 1 tn The Hebrew text reads “my glory,” but it is preferable to repoint the form and read “my liver.” The liver was sometimes viewed as the seat of the emotions and will (see HALOT 456 s.v. II כָּבֵד) for which the heart is the modern equivalent.
[4:25] 1 tn Heb “knew,” a frequent euphemism for sexual relations.
[4:25] 2 sn The name Seth probably means something like “placed”; “appointed”; “set”; “granted,” assuming it is actually related to the verb that is used in the sentiment. At any rate, the name שֵׁת (shet) and the verb שָׁת (shat, “to place, to appoint, to set, to grant”) form a wordplay (paronomasia).





