Discovery BoxGenesis 9:28
Context9:28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
Genesis 17:25
Context17:25 his son Ishmael was thirteen years old 1 when he was circumcised.
Genesis 5:22
Context5:22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 2 for 300 years, 3 and he had other 4 sons and daughters.
Genesis 6:15
Context6:15 This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 5
Genesis 11:13
Context11:13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other 6 sons and daughters. 7
Genesis 11:15
Context11:15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other 8 sons and daughters.
Genesis 18:6
Context18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Take 9 three measures 10 of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.” 11
Genesis 45:22
Context45:22 He gave sets of clothes to each one of them, 12 but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes. 13
[17:25] 1 tn Heb “the son of thirteen years.”
[5:22] 1 sn With the seventh panel there is a digression from the pattern. Instead of simply saying that Enoch lived, the text observes that he “walked with God.” The rare expression “walked with” (the Hitpael form of the verb הָלָךְ, halakh, “to walk” collocated with the preposition אֶת, ’et, “with”) is used in 1 Sam 25:15 to describe how David’s men maintained a cordial and cooperative relationship with Nabal’s men as they worked and lived side by side in the fields. In Gen 5:22 the phrase suggests that Enoch and God “got along.” This may imply that Enoch lived in close fellowship with God, leading a life of devotion and piety. An early Jewish tradition, preserved in 1 En. 1:9 and alluded to in Jude 14, says that Enoch preached about the coming judgment. See F. S. Parnham, “Walking with God,” EvQ 46 (1974): 117-18.
[5:22] 2 tn Heb “and Enoch walked with God, after he became the father of Methuselah, [for] 300 years.”
[5:22] 3 tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.
[6:15] 1 tn Heb “300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about 18 inches (45 cm) long.
[11:13] 1 tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.
[11:13] 2 tc The reading of the MT is followed in vv. 11-12; the LXX reads, “And [= when] Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, [and] he fathered [= became the father of] Cainan. And after he fathered [= became the father of] Cainan, Arphaxad lived four hundred and thirty years and fathered [= had] [other] sons and daughters, and [then] he died. And [= when] Cainan had lived one hundred and thirty years, [and] he fathered [= became the father of] Sala [= Shelah]. And after he fathered [= became the father of] Sala [= Shelah], Cainan lived three hundred and thirty years and fathered [= had] [other] sons and daughters, and [then] he died.” See also the note on “Shelah” in Gen 10:24; the LXX reading also appears to lie behind Luke 3:35-36.
[11:15] 1 tn Here and in vv. 16, 19, 21, 23, 25 the word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.
[18:6] 1 tn The word “take” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text the sentence lacks a verb other than the imperative “hurry.” The elliptical structure of the language reflects Abraham’s haste to get things ready quickly.
[18:6] 2 sn Three measures (Heb “three seahs”) was equivalent to about twenty quarts (twenty-two liters) of flour, which would make a lot of bread. The animal prepared for the meal was far more than the three visitors needed. This was a banquet for royalty. Either it had been a lonely time for Abraham and the presence of visitors made him very happy, or he sensed this was a momentous visit.
[18:6] 3 sn The bread was the simple, round bread made by bedouins that is normally prepared quickly for visitors.
[45:22] 1 tn Heb “to all of them he gave, to each one, changes of outer garments.”
