Genesis 8:14

8:14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth ¹  was dry.

Genesis 22:15

22:15 The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven

Genesis 30:12

30:12 Then Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob another son. ² 

Genesis 1:8

1:8 God called the expanse “sky.” ³  There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 2:13

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through ⁴  the entire land of Cush. ⁵ 

Genesis 4:19

4:19 Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Genesis 30:7

30:7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son. ⁶ 

Genesis 41:5

41:5 Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing ⁷  on one stalk, healthy ⁸  and good.

Genesis 41:52

41:52 He named the second child Ephraim, ⁹  saying, ¹⁰  “Certainly ¹¹  God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

Genesis 6:16

6:16 Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches ¹²  from the top. ¹³  Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

Genesis 7:11

7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep ¹⁴  burst open and the floodgates of the heavens ¹⁵  were opened.

Genesis 32:19

32:19 He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. ¹⁶ 

Genesis 47:18

47:18 When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We cannot hide from our ¹⁷  lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

[8:14]  ¹ tn In v. 13 the ground (הָאֲדָמָה, ha’adamah) is dry; now the earth (הָאָרֶץ, ha’arets) is dry.

[30:12]  ² tn Heb “and Zilpah, the servant of Leah, bore a second son for Jacob.”

[1:8]  ³ tn Though the Hebrew word can mean “heaven,” it refers in this context to “the sky.”

[2:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

[2:13]  ⁵ sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.

[30:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “and she became pregnant again and Bilhah, the servant of Rachel, bore a second son for Jacob.”

[41:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “coming up.”

[41:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “fat.”

[41:52]  ⁷ sn The name Ephraim (אֶפְרַיִם, ’efrayim), a form of the Hebrew verb פָּרָה (parah), means “to bear fruit.” The theme of fruitfulness is connected with this line of the family from Rachel (30:2) on down (see Gen 49:22, Deut 33:13-17, and Hos 13:15). But there is some difficulty with the name “Ephraim” itself. It appears to be a dual, for which F. Delitzsch simply said it meant “double fruitfulness” (New Commentary on Genesis, 2:305). G. J. Spurrell suggested it was a diphthongal pronunciation of a name ending in -an or -am, often thought to be dual suffixes (Notes on the text of the book of Genesis, 334). Many, however, simply connect the name to the territory of Ephraim and interpret it to be “fertile land” (C. Fontinoy, “Les noms de lieux en -ayim dans la Bible,” UF 3 [1971]: 33-40). The dual would then be an old locative ending. There is no doubt that the name became attached to the land in which the tribe settled, and it is possible that is where the dual ending came from, but in this story it refers to Joseph’s God-given fruitfulness.

[41:52]  ⁸ tn The word “saying” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[41:52]  ⁹ tn Or “for.”

[6:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “a cubit.”

[6:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “to a cubit you shall finish it from above.” The idea is that Noah was to leave an 18-inch opening from the top for a window for light.

[7:11]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew term תְּהוֹם (tÿhom, “deep”) refers to the watery deep, the salty ocean – especially the primeval ocean that surrounds and underlies the earth (see Gen 1:2).

[7:11]  ¹⁰ sn On the prescientific view of the sky reflected here, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World (AnBib), 46.

[32:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And he commanded also the second, also the third, also all the ones going after the herds, saying: ‘According to this word you will speak when you find him.’”

[47:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “my.” The expression “my lord” occurs twice more in this verse.