Genesis 4:15

4:15 But the Lord said to him, “All right then, ¹  if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” ²  Then the Lord put a special mark ³  on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down. ⁴ 

Genesis 7:19

7:19 The waters completely inundated ⁵  the earth so that even ⁶  all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

Genesis 9:3

9:3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. ⁷  As I gave you ⁸  the green plants, I now give ⁹  you everything.

Genesis 16:12

16:12 He will be a wild donkey ¹⁰  of a man.

He will be hostile to everyone, ¹¹ 

and everyone will be hostile to him. ¹² 

He will live away from ¹³  his brothers.”

Genesis 19:25

19:25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, ¹⁴  including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew ¹⁵  from the ground.

Genesis 26:4

26:4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them ¹⁶  all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants. ¹⁷ 

Genesis 31:16

31:16 Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

Genesis 41:51

41:51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, ¹⁸  saying, ¹⁹  “Certainly ²⁰  God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”

Genesis 41:56

41:56 While the famine was over all the earth, ²¹  Joseph opened the storehouses ²²  and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:13

45:13 So tell ²³  my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!” ²⁴ 

Genesis 46:26

46:26 All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.) ²⁵ 

[4:15]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term לָכֵן (lakhen, “therefore”) in this context carries the sense of “Okay,” or “in that case then I will do this.”

[4:15]  ² sn The symbolic number seven is used here to emphasize that the offender will receive severe punishment. For other rhetorical and hyperbolic uses of the expression “seven times over,” see Pss 12:6; 79:12; Prov 6:31; Isa 30:26.

[4:15]  ³ tn Heb “sign”; “reminder.” The term “sign” is not used in the translation because it might imply to an English reader that God hung a sign on Cain. The text does not identify what the “sign” was. It must have been some outward, visual reminder of Cain’s special protected status.

[4:15]  ⁴ sn God becomes Cain’s protector. Here is common grace – Cain and his community will live on under God’s care, but without salvation.

[7:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the waters were great exceedingly, exceedingly.” The repetition emphasizes the depth of the waters.

[7:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “and.”

[9:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “every moving thing that lives for you will be for food.”

[9:3]  ¹⁰ tn The words “I gave you” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[9:3]  ¹¹ tn The perfect verb form describes the action that accompanies the declaration.

[16:12]  ¹³ sn A wild donkey of a man. The prophecy is not an insult. The wild donkey lived a solitary existence in the desert away from society. Ishmael would be free-roaming, strong, and like a bedouin; he would enjoy the freedom his mother sought.

[16:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “His hand will be against everyone.” The “hand” by metonymy represents strength. His free-roaming life style would put him in conflict with those who follow social conventions. There would not be open warfare, only friction because of his antagonism to their way of life.

[16:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “And the hand of everyone will be against him.”

[16:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “opposite, across from.” Ishmael would live on the edge of society (cf. NASB “to the east of”). Some take this as an idiom meaning “be at odds with” (cf. NRSV, NLT) or “live in hostility toward” (cf. NIV).

[19:25]  ¹⁷ tn Or “and all the plain”; Heb “and all the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:25]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and the vegetation of the ground.”

[26:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “your descendants.”

[26:4]  ²² tn Traditionally the verb is taken as passive (“will be blessed”) here, as if Abraham’s descendants were going to be a channel or source of blessing to the nations. But the Hitpael is better understood here as reflexive/reciprocal, “will bless [i.e., pronounce blessings on] themselves/one another” (see also Gen 22:18). Elsewhere the Hitpael of the verb “to bless” is used with a reflexive/reciprocal sense in Deut 29:18; Ps 72:17; Isa 65:16; Jer 4:2. Gen 12:2 predicts that Abram will be held up as a paradigm of divine blessing and that people will use his name in their blessing formulae. For examples of blessing formulae utilizing an individual as an example of blessing see Gen 48:20 and Ruth 4:11. Earlier formulations of this promise (see Gen 12:2; 18:18) use the Niphal stem. (See also Gen 28:14.)

[41:51]  ²⁵ sn The name Manasseh (מְנַשֶּׁה, mÿnasheh) describes God’s activity on behalf of Joseph, explaining in general the significance of his change of fortune. The name is a Piel participle, suggesting the meaning “he who brings about forgetfulness.” The Hebrew verb נַשַּׁנִי (nashani) may have been used instead of the normal נִשַּׁנִי (nishani) to provide a closer sound play with the name. The giving of this Hebrew name to his son shows that Joseph retained his heritage and faith; and it shows that a brighter future was in store for him.

[41:51]  ²⁶ tn The word “saying” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[41:51]  ²⁷ tn Or “for.”

[41:56]  ²⁹ tn Or “over the entire land”; Heb “over all the face of the earth.” The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal to the next clause.

[41:56]  ³⁰ tc The MT reads “he opened all that was in [or “among”] them.” The translation follows the reading of the LXX and Syriac versions.

[45:13]  ³³ tn The perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive here expresses instruction.

[45:13]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and hurry and bring down my father to here.”

[46:26]  ³⁷ tn Heb “All the people who went with Jacob to Egypt, the ones who came out of his body, apart from the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the people were sixty-six.”