Genesis 8:20

8:20 Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ¹ 

Genesis 19:28

19:28 He looked out toward ²  Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. ³  As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace. ⁴ 

Genesis 19:30

19:30 Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Genesis 24:16

24:16 Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. ⁵  She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

Genesis 28:12

28:12 and had a dream. ⁶  He saw ⁷  a stairway ⁸  erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it

Genesis 31:10

31:10 “Once ⁹  during breeding season I saw ¹⁰  in a dream that the male goats mating with ¹¹  the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Genesis 35:3

35:3 Let us go up at once ¹²  to Bethel. Then I will make ¹³  an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress ¹⁴  and has been with me wherever I went.” ¹⁵ 

Genesis 38:12

38:12 After some time ¹⁶  Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with ¹⁷  his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Genesis 41:3

41:3 Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, ¹⁸  and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river. ¹⁹ 

Genesis 41:27

41:27 The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent ²⁰  seven years of famine.

Genesis 44:34

44:34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see ²¹  my father’s pain.” ²² 

Genesis 46:29

46:29 Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, ²³  he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

Genesis 50:14

50:14 After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.

Genesis 50:25

50:25 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, “God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

[8:20]  ¹ sn Offered burnt offerings on the altar. F. D. Maurice includes a chapter on the sacrifice of Noah in The Doctrine of Sacrifice. The whole burnt offering, according to Leviticus 1, represented the worshiper’s complete surrender and dedication to the Lord. After the flood Noah could see that God was not only a God of wrath, but a God of redemption and restoration. The one who escaped the catastrophe could best express his gratitude and submission through sacrificial worship, acknowledging God as the sovereign of the universe.

[19:28]  ² tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[19:28]  ³ tn Or “all the land of the plain”; Heb “and all the face of the land of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “And he saw, and look, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.”

[24:16]  ³ tn Heb “And the young woman was very good of appearance, a virgin, and a man she had not known.” Some argue that the Hebrew noun translated “virgin” (בְּתוּלָה, bÿtulah) is better understood in a general sense, “young woman” (see Joel 1:8, where the word appears to refer to one who is married). In this case the circumstantial clause (“and a man she had not known”) would be restrictive, rather than descriptive. If the term actually means “virgin,” one wonders why the circumstantial clause is necessary (see Judg 21:12 as well). Perhaps the repetition emphasizes her sexual purity as a prerequisite for her role as the mother of the covenant community.

[28:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “and dreamed.”

[28:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “and look.” The scene which Jacob witnessed is described in three clauses introduced with הִנֵּה (hinneh). In this way the narrator invites the reader to witness the scene through Jacob’s eyes. J. P. Fokkelman points out that the particle goes with a lifted arm and an open mouth: “There, a ladder! Oh, angels! and look, the Lord himself” (Narrative Art in Genesis [SSN], 51-52).

[28:12]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew noun סֻלָּם (sullam, “ladder, stairway”) occurs only here in the OT, but there appears to be an Akkadian cognate simmiltu (with metathesis of the second and third consonants and a feminine ending) which has a specialized meaning of “stairway, ramp.” See H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena (SBLDS), 34. For further discussion see C. Houtman, “What Did Jacob See in His Dream at Bethel? Some Remarks on Genesis 28:10-22,” VT 27 (1977): 337-52; J. G. Griffiths, “The Celestial Ladder and the Gate of Heaven,” ExpTim 76 (1964/65): 229-30; and A. R. Millard, “The Celestial Ladder and the Gate of Heaven,” ExpTim 78 (1966/67): 86-87.

[31:10]  ⁵ tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator, “and it happened at the time of.”

[31:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the time of the breeding of the flock I lifted up my eyes and I saw.”

[31:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.

[35:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “let us arise and let us go up.” The first cohortative gives the statement a sense of urgency.

[35:3]  ⁷ tn The cohortative with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or consequence.

[35:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “day of distress.” See Ps 20:1 which utilizes similar language.

[35:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the way in which I went.” Jacob alludes here to God’s promise to be with him (see Gen 28:20).

[38:12]  ⁷ sn After some time. There is not enough information in the narrative to know how long this was. The text says “the days increased.” It was long enough for Shelah to mature and for Tamar to realize she would not have him.

[38:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he went up to the shearers of his sheep, he and.”

[41:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “And look, seven other cows were coming up after them from the Nile, bad of appearance and thin of flesh.”

[41:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “the Nile.” This has been replaced by “the river” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[41:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “are.” Another option is to translate, “There will be seven years of famine.”

[44:34]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose – “I cannot go up lest I see.”

[44:34]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”

[46:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he appeared to him.”