Genesis 7:7

7:7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because ¹  of the floodwaters.

Genesis 8:16

8:16 “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 10:1

The Table of Nations

10:1 This is the account ²  of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons ³  were born ⁴  to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:7

10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, ⁵  Havilah, ⁶  Sabtah, ⁷  Raamah, ⁸  and Sabteca. ⁹  The sons of Raamah were Sheba ¹⁰  and Dedan. ¹¹ 

Genesis 16:15

16:15 So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael. ¹² 

Genesis 17:25

17:25 his son Ishmael was thirteen years old ¹³  when he was circumcised.

Genesis 21:4-5

21:4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, ¹⁴  Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. ¹⁵  21:5 (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) ¹⁶ 

Genesis 21:7

21:7 She went on to say, ¹⁷  “Who would ¹⁸  have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

Genesis 25:4

25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants ¹⁹  of Keturah.

Genesis 46:8

46:8 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt – Jacob and his sons:

Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob.

Genesis 46:10

46:10 The sons of Simeon:

Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar,

and Shaul (the son of a Canaanite woman).

Genesis 46:17

46:17 The sons of Asher:

Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister.

The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malkiel.

Genesis 49:22

49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, ²⁰ 

a fruitful bough near a spring

whose branches ²¹  climb over the wall.

[7:7]  ¹ tn The preposition מִן (min) is causal here, explaining why Noah and his family entered the ark.

[10:1]  ² tn The title אֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת (’elle tolÿdot, here translated as “This is the account”) here covers 10:1–11:9, which contains the so-called Table of Nations and the account of how the nations came to be dispersed.

[10:1]  ³ sn Sons were born to them. A vertical genealogy such as this encompasses more than the names of sons. The list includes cities, tribes, and even nations. In a loose way, the names in the list have some derivation or connection to the three ancestors.

[10:1]  ⁴ tn It appears that the Table of Nations is a composite of at least two ancient sources: Some sections begin with the phrase “the sons of” (בְּנֵי, bÿne) while other sections use “begot” (יָלָד, yalad). It may very well be that the “sons of” list was an old, “bare bones” list that was retained in the family records, while the “begot” sections were editorial inserts by the writer of Genesis, reflecting his special interests. See A. P. Ross, “The Table of Nations in Genesis 10 – Its Structure,” BSac 137 (1980): 340-53; idem, “The Table of Nations in Genesis 10 – Its Content,” BSac 138 (1981): 22-34.

[10:7]  ³ sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.

[10:7]  ⁴ sn The Hebrew name Havilah apparently means “stretch of sand” (see HALOT 297 s.v. חֲוִילָה). Havilah’s descendants settled in eastern Arabia.

[10:7]  ⁵ sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.

[10:7]  ⁶ sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.

[10:7]  ⁷ sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.

[10:7]  ⁸ sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.

[10:7]  ⁹ sn The name Dedan is associated with àUla in northern Arabia.

[16:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.”

[17:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “the son of thirteen years.”

[21:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “Isaac his son, the son of eight days.” The name “Isaac” is repeated in the translation for clarity.

[21:4]  ⁷ sn Just as God had commanded him to do. With the birth of the promised child, Abraham obeyed the Lord by both naming (Gen 17:19) and circumcising Isaac (17:12).

[21:5]  ⁷ tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause underscores how miraculous this birth was. Abraham was 100 years old. The fact that the genealogies give the ages of the fathers when their first son is born shows that this was considered a major milestone in one’s life (G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 2:80).

[21:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “said.”

[21:7]  ⁹ tn The perfect form of the verb is used here to describe a hypothetical situation.

[25:4]  ⁹ tn Or “sons.”

[49:22]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text appears to mean “[is] a son of fruitfulness.” The second word is an active participle, feminine singular, from the verb פָּרָה (parah, “to be fruitful”). The translation “bough” is employed for בֵּן (ben, elsewhere typically “son”) because Joseph is pictured as a healthy and fruitful vine growing by the wall. But there are difficulties with this interpretation. The word “son” nowhere else refers to a plant and the noun translated “branches” (Heb “daughters”) in the third line is a plural form whereas its verb is singular. In the other oracles of Gen 49 an animal is used for comparison and not a plant, leading some to translate the opening phrase בֵּן פָּרָה (ben parah, “fruitful bough”) as “wild donkey” (JPS, NAB). Various other interpretations involving more radical emendation of the text have also been offered.

[49:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “daughters.”