Genesis 9:19

9:19 These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. ¹ 

Genesis 10:20

10:20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

Genesis 10:22

10:22 The sons of Shem were Elam, ²  Asshur, ³  Arphaxad, ⁴  Lud, ⁵  and Aram. ⁶ 

Genesis 10:31

10:31 These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

Genesis 23:5

23:5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, ⁷ 

Genesis 27:8

27:8 Now then, my son, do ⁸  exactly what I tell you! ⁹ 

Genesis 27:24

27:24 Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob ¹⁰  replied.

Genesis 29:1

The Marriages of Jacob

29:1 So Jacob moved on ¹¹  and came to the land of the eastern people. ¹² 

Genesis 36:11

36:11 The sons of Eliphaz were:

Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

Genesis 36:19

36:19 These were the sons of Esau (also known as Edom), and these were their chiefs.

Genesis 36:22-23

36:22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Homam; ¹³  Lotan’s sister was Timna.

36:23 These were the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, ¹⁴  and Onam.

Genesis 36:25-26

36:25 These were the children ¹⁵  of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

36:26 These were the sons of Dishon: ¹⁶  Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.

Genesis 48:8

48:8 When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are these?”

Genesis 49:2

49:2 “Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob;

listen to Israel, your father.

Genesis 49:32

49:32 The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.” ¹⁷ 

[9:19]  ¹ tn Heb “was scattered.” The verb פָּצָה (patsah, “to scatter” [Niphal, “to be scattered”]) figures prominently in story of the dispersion of humankind in chap. 11.

[10:22]  ² sn The Hebrew name Elam (עֵילָם, ’elam) means “highland.” The Elamites were a non-Semitic people who lived east of Babylon.

[10:22]  ³ sn Asshur is the name for the Assyrians. Asshur was the region in which Nimrod expanded his power (see v. 11, where the name is also mentioned). When names appear in both sections of a genealogical list, it probably means that there were both Hamites and Shemites living in that region in antiquity, especially if the name is a place name.

[10:22]  ⁴ sn The descendants of Arphaxad may have lived northeast of Nineveh.

[10:22]  ⁵ sn Lud may have been the ancestor of the Ludbu, who lived near the Tigris River.

[10:22]  ⁶ sn Aram became the collective name of the northern tribes living in the steppes of Mesopotamia and speaking Aramaic dialects.

[23:5]  ³ tn Heb “answered Abraham saying to him.”

[27:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “listen to my voice.” The Hebrew idiom means “to comply; to obey.”

[27:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “to that which I am commanding you.”

[27:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[29:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “and Jacob lifted up his feet.” This unusual expression suggests that Jacob had a new lease on life now that God had promised him the blessing he had so desperately tried to gain by his own efforts. The text portrays him as having a new step in his walk.

[29:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “the land of the sons of the east.”

[36:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “Hemam”; this is probably a variant spelling of “Homam” (1 Chr 1:39); cf. NRSV, NLT “Heman.”

[36:23]  ⁸ tn This name is given as “Shephi” in 1 Chr 1:40.

[36:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “sons,” but since a daughter is included in the list, the word must be translated “children.”

[36:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Dishan,” but this must be either a scribal error or variant spelling, since “Dishan” is mentioned in v. 28 (see also v. 21).

[49:32]  ¹¹ tn Some translate the Hebrew term “Heth” as “Hittites” here (see also Gen 23:3), but this gives the impression that these people were the classical Hittites of Anatolia. However, there is no known connection between these sons of Heth, apparently a Canaanite group (see Gen 10:15), and the Hittites of Asia Minor. See H. A. Hoffner, Jr., “Hittites,” Peoples of the Old Testament World, 152-53.