Genesis 9:2

9:2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. ¹  Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority. ² 

Genesis 19:12

19:12 Then the two visitors ³  said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? ⁴  Do you have ⁵  any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? ⁶  Get them out of this ⁷  place

Genesis 31:13

31:13 I am the God of Bethel, ⁸  where you anointed ⁹  the sacred stone and made a vow to me. ¹⁰  Now leave this land immediately ¹¹  and return to your native land.’”

Genesis 31:41

31:41 This was my lot ¹²  for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave ¹³  for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

Genesis 43:14

43:14 May the sovereign God ¹⁴  grant you mercy before the man so that he may release ¹⁵  your other brother ¹⁶  and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.” ¹⁷ 

Genesis 48:5

48:5 “Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. ¹⁸  Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.

[9:2]  ¹ tn Heb “and fear of you and dread of you will be upon every living creature of the earth and upon every bird of the sky.” The suffixes on the nouns “fear” and “dread” are objective genitives. The animals will fear humans from this time forward.

[9:2]  ² tn Heb “into your hand are given.” The “hand” signifies power. To say the animals have been given into the hands of humans means humans have been given authority over them.

[19:12]  ³ tn Heb “the men,” referring to the angels inside Lot’s house. The word “visitors” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[19:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “Yet who [is there] to you here?”

[19:12]  ⁵ tn The words “Do you have” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “a son-in-law and your sons and your daughters and anyone who (is) to you in the city.”

[19:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “the place.” The Hebrew article serves here as a demonstrative.

[31:13]  ⁵ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[31:13]  ⁶ sn You anointed the sacred stone. In Gen 28:18 the text simply reported that Jacob poured oil on top of the stone. Now that pouring is interpreted by the Lord as an anointing. Jacob had consecrated the place.

[31:13]  ⁷ sn And made a vow to me. The second clause reminds Jacob of the vow he made to the Lord when he anointed the stone (Gen 28:20-22). God is now going to take him back to the land, and so he will have to fulfill his vow.

[31:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “arise, leave!” The first imperative draws attention to the need for immediate action.

[31:41]  ⁷ tn Heb “this to me.”

[31:41]  ⁸ tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”

[43:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.

[43:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “release to you.” After the jussive this perfect verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) probably indicates logical consequence, as well as temporal sequence.

[43:14]  ¹¹ sn Several Jewish commentators suggest that the expression your other brother refers to Joseph. This would mean that Jacob prophesied unwittingly. However, it is much more likely that Simeon is the referent of the phrase “your other brother” (see Gen 42:24).

[43:14]  ¹² tn Heb “if I am bereaved I am bereaved.” With this fatalistic sounding statement Jacob resolves himself to the possibility of losing both Benjamin and Simeon.

[48:5]  ¹¹ sn They will be mine. Jacob is here adopting his two grandsons Manasseh and Ephraim as his sons, and so they will have equal share with the other brothers. They will be in the place of Joseph and Levi (who will become a priestly tribe) in the settlement of the land. See I. Mendelsohn, “A Ugaritic Parallel to the Adoption of Ephraim and Manasseh,” IEJ (1959): 180-83.