Genesis 4:23

4:23 Lamech said to his wives,

“Adah and Zillah! Listen to me!

You wives of Lamech, hear my words!

I have killed a man for wounding me,

a young man ¹  for hurting me.

Genesis 6:18

6:18 but I will confirm ²  my covenant with you. You will enter ³  the ark – you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 7:2

7:2 You must take with you seven ⁴  of every kind of clean animal, ⁵  the male and its mate, ⁶  two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

Genesis 7:13

7:13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives. ⁷ 

Genesis 12:11

12:11 As he approached ⁸  Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, ⁹  I know that you are a beautiful woman. ¹⁰ 

Genesis 12:19

12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her ¹¹  to be my wife? ¹²  Here is your wife! ¹³  Take her and go!” ¹⁴ 

Genesis 25:21

25:21 Isaac prayed to ¹⁵  the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

Genesis 28:9

28:9 So Esau went to Ishmael and married ¹⁶  Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.

Genesis 36:10

36:10 These were the names of Esau’s sons:

Eliphaz, the son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau’s wife Basemath.

Genesis 36:18

36:18 These were the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These were the chiefs descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

Genesis 49:31

49:31 There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.

[4:23]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term יֶלֶד (yeled) probably refers to a youthful warrior here, not a child.

[6:18]  ² tn The Hebrew verb וַהֲקִמֹתִי (vahaqimoti) is the Hiphil perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive (picking up the future sense from the participles) from קוּם (qum, “to rise up”). This may refer to the confirmation or fulfillment of an earlier promise, but it is more likely that it anticipates the unconditional promise made to humankind following the flood (see Gen 9:9, 11, 17).

[6:18]  ³ tn The perfect verb form with vav (ו) consecutive is best understood as specific future, continuing God’s description of what will happen (see vv. 17-18a).

[7:2]  ³ tn Or “seven pairs” (cf. NRSV).

[7:2]  ⁴ sn For a study of the Levitical terminology of “clean” and “unclean,” see L. E. Toombs, IDB 1:643.

[7:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “a male and his female” (also a second time at the end of this verse). The terms used here for male and female animals (אִישׁ, ’ish) and אִשָּׁה, ’ishah) normally refer to humans.

[7:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “On that very day Noah entered, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “drew near to enter.”

[12:11]  ⁶ tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) is deictic here; it draws attention to the following fact.

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “a woman beautiful of appearance are you.”

[12:19]  ⁶ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive here expresses consequence.

[12:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “to me for a wife.”

[12:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “Look, your wife!”

[12:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “take and go.”

[25:21]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew verb עָתַר (’atar), translated “prayed [to]” here, appears in the story of God’s judgment on Egypt in which Moses asked the Lord to remove the plagues. The cognate word in Arabic means “to slaughter for sacrifice,” and the word is used in Zeph 3:10 to describe worshipers who bring offerings. Perhaps some ritual accompanied Isaac’s prayer here.

[28:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “took for a wife.”