Genesis 4:3

4:3 At the designated time ¹  Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering ²  to the Lord.

Genesis 8:6

8:6 At the end of forty days, ³  Noah opened the window he had made in the ark ⁴ 

Genesis 41:1

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41:1 At the end of two full years ⁵  Pharaoh had a dream. ⁶  As he was standing by the Nile,

Genesis 16:3

16:3 So after Abram had lived ⁷  in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, ⁸  to her husband to be his wife. ⁹ 

[4:3]  ¹ tn Heb “And it happened at the end of days.” The clause indicates the passing of a set period of time leading up to offering sacrifices.

[4:3]  ² tn The Hebrew term מִנְחָה (minkhah, “offering”) is a general word for tribute, a gift, or an offering. It is the main word used in Lev 2 for the dedication offering. This type of offering could be comprised of vegetables. The content of the offering (vegetables, as opposed to animals) was not the critical issue, but rather the attitude of the offerer.

[8:6]  ³ tn The introductory verbal form וַיְהִי (vayÿhi), traditionally rendered “and it came to pass,” serves as a temporal indicator and has not been translated here.

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “opened the window in the ark which he had made.” The perfect tense (“had made”) refers to action preceding the opening of the window, and is therefore rendered as a past perfect. Since in English “had made” could refer to either the ark or the window, the order of the phrases was reversed in the translation to clarify that the window is the referent.

[41:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “two years, days.”

[41:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “was dreaming.”

[16:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “at the end of ten years, to live, Abram.” The prepositional phrase introduces the temporal clause, the infinitive construct serves as the verb, and the name “Abram” is the subject.

[16:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Egyptian, her female servant.”

[16:3]  ⁹ sn To be his wife. Hagar became a slave wife, not on equal standing with Sarai. However, if Hagar produced the heir, she would be the primary wife in the eyes of society. When this eventually happened, Hagar become insolent, prompting Sarai’s anger.