Genesis 6:21

6:21 And you must take ¹  for yourself every kind of food ²  that is eaten, ³  and gather it together. ⁴  It will be food for you and for them.

Genesis 12:19

12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her ⁵  to be my wife? ⁶  Here is your wife! ⁷  Take her and go!” ⁸ 

Genesis 33:11

33:11 Please take my present ⁹  that was brought to you, for God has been generous ¹⁰  to me and I have all I need.” ¹¹  When Jacob urged him, he took it. ¹² 

[6:21]  ¹ tn The verb is a direct imperative: “And you, take for yourself.” The form stresses the immediate nature of the instruction; the pronoun underscores the directness.

[6:21]  ² tn Heb “from all food,” meaning “some of every kind of food.”

[6:21]  ³ tn Or “will be eaten.”

[6:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “and gather it to you.”

[12:19]  ⁵ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive here expresses consequence.

[12:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “to me for a wife.”

[12:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look, your wife!”

[12:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “take and go.”

[33:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “blessing.” It is as if Jacob is trying to repay what he stole from his brother twenty years earlier.

[33:11]  ¹⁰ tn Or “gracious,” but in the specific sense of prosperity.

[33:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “all.”

[33:11]  ¹² tn Heb “and he urged him and he took.” The referent of the first pronoun in the sequence (“he”) has been specified as “Jacob” in the translation for clarity.