Genesis 37:12

37:12 When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,

Genesis 45:25

45:25 So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. ¹ 

Genesis 9:23

9:23 Shem and Japheth took the garment ²  and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned ³  the other way so they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Genesis 31:53

31:53 May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, ⁴  the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared. ⁵ 

Genesis 37:4

37:4 When Joseph’s ⁶  brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, ⁷  they hated Joseph ⁸  and were not able to speak to him kindly. ⁹ 

Genesis 37:32

37:32 Then they brought the special tunic to their father ¹⁰  and said, “We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

Genesis 42:29

42:29 They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

Genesis 42:36

42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. ¹¹  Simeon is gone. ¹²  And now you want to take ¹³  Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

Genesis 43:2

43:2 When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Return, buy us a little more food.”

Genesis 49:28

49:28 These ¹⁴  are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing. ¹⁵ 

Genesis 37:2

37:2 This is the account of Jacob.

Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, ¹⁶  was taking care of ¹⁷  the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster ¹⁸  working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. ¹⁹  Joseph brought back a bad report about them ²⁰  to their father.

Genesis 43:11

43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man – a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

Genesis 45:27

45:27 But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, ²¹  and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

Genesis 46:5

46:5 Then Jacob started out ²²  from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

Genesis 50:15

50:15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay ²³  us in full ²⁴  for all the harm ²⁵  we did to him?”

[45:25]  ¹ tn Heb “and they entered the land of Canaan to their father.”

[9:23]  ¹ tn The word translated “garment” has the Hebrew definite article on it. The article may simply indicate that the garment is definite and vivid in the mind of the narrator, but it could refer instead to Noah’s garment. Did Ham bring it out when he told his brothers?

[9:23]  ² tn Heb “their faces [were turned] back.”

[31:53]  ¹ tn The God of Abraham and the god of Nahor. The Hebrew verb translated “judge” is plural, suggesting that Laban has more than one “god” in mind. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the LXX, apparently in an effort to make the statement monotheistic, have a singular verb. In this case one could translate, “May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” However, Laban had a polytheistic world view, as evidenced by his possession of household idols (cf. 31:19). The translation uses “God” when referring to Abraham’s God, for Genesis makes it clear that Abraham worshiped the one true God. It employs “god” when referring to Nahor’s god, for in the Hebrew text Laban refers to a different god here, probably one of the local deities.

[31:53]  ² tn Heb “by the fear of his father Isaac.” See the note on the word “fears” in v. 42.

[37:4]  ¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:4]  ² tn Heb “of his brothers.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun “them.”

[37:4]  ³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “speak to him for peace.”

[37:32]  ¹ tn Heb “and they sent the special tunic and they brought [it] to their father.” The text as it stands is problematic. It sounds as if they sent the tunic on ahead and then came and brought it to their father. Some emend the second verb to a Qal form and read “and they came.” In this case, they sent the tunic on ahead.

[42:36]  ¹ tn Heb “is not.”

[42:36]  ² tn Heb “is not.”

[42:36]  ³ tn The nuance of the imperfect verbal form is desiderative here.

[49:28]  ¹ tn Heb “All these.”

[49:28]  ² tn Heb “and he blessed them, each of whom according to his blessing, he blessed them.”

[37:2]  ¹ tn Heb “a son of seventeen years.” The word “son” is in apposition to the name “Joseph.”

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

[37:2]  ³ 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]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “their bad report.” The pronoun is an objective genitive, specifying that the bad or damaging report was about the brothers.

[45:27]  ¹ tn Heb “and they spoke to him all the words of Joseph which he had spoke to them.”

[46:5]  ¹ tn Heb “arose.”

[50:15]  ¹ tn The imperfect tense could be a simple future; it could also have a desiderative nuance.

[50:15]  ² tn The infinitive absolute makes the statement emphatic, “repay in full.”

[50:15]  ³ tn Or “evil.”