Discovery Box| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 3:11) |
2 sn Who told you that you were naked? This is another rhetorical question, asking more than what it appears to ask. The second question in the verse reveals the |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 6:4) |
3 tn Heb “were entering to,” referring euphemistically to sexual intercourse here. The Hebrew imperfect verbal form draws attention to the ongoing nature of such sexual unions during the time before the flood. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 8:11) |
2 tn The deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) draws attention to the olive leaf. It invites readers to enter into the story, as it were, and look at the olive leaf with their own eyes. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 8:13) |
2 tn Heb “and saw and look.” As in v. 11, the deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) invites readers to enter into the story, as it were, and look at the dry ground with their own eyes. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 12:17) |
1 tn The cognate accusative adds emphasis to the verbal sentence: “he plagued with great plagues,” meaning the |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 14:10) |
2 tn Or “they were defeated there.” After a verb of motion the Hebrew particle שָׁם (sham) with the directional heh (שָׁמָּה, shammah) can mean “into it, therein” (BDB 1027 s.v. שָׁם). |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 14:10) |
4 sn The reference to the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah must mean the kings along with their armies. Most of them were defeated in the valley, but some of them escaped to the hills. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 15:17) |
1 sn A smoking pot with a flaming torch. These same implements were used in Mesopotamian rituals designed to ward off evil (see E. A. Speiser, Genesis [AB], 113-14). |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 25:24) |
2 tn Heb “look!” By the use of the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”), the narrator invites the audience to view the scene as if they were actually present at the birth. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 27:16) |
2 tn The word “hands” probably includes the forearms here. How the skins were attached is not specified in the Hebrew text; cf. NLT “she made him a pair of gloves.” |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 30:33) |
3 sn Only the wage we agreed on. Jacob would have to be considered completely honest here, for he would have no control over the kind of animals born; and there could be no disagreement over which animals were his wages. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 33:2) |
1 sn This kind of ranking according to favoritism no doubt fed the jealousy over Joseph that later becomes an important element in the narrative. It must have been painful to the family to see that they were expendable. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 34:1) |
1 tn Heb “went out to see.” The verb “to see,” followed by the preposition בְּ (bÿ), here has the idea of “look over.” The young girl wanted to meet these women and see what they were like. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 37:7) |
1 tn All three clauses in this dream report begin with וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and look”), which lends vividness to the report. This is represented in the translation by the expression “there we were.” |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 42:22) |
1 tn Heb “and also his blood, look, it is required.” God requires compensation, as it were, from those who shed innocent blood (see Gen 9:6). In other words, God exacts punishment for the crime of murder. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Gen 46:26) |
1 tn Heb “All the people who went with Jacob to Egypt, the ones who came out of his body, apart from the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the people were sixty-six.” |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Exo 3:20) |
1 sn The outstretched arm is a bold anthropomorphism. It describes the power of God. The Egyptians will later admit that the plagues were by the hand of God (Exod 8:19). |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Exo 5:19) |
3 tn The clause “when they were told” translates לֵאמֹר (le’mor), which usually simply means “saying.” The thing that was said was clearly the decree that was given to them. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Exo 5:20) |
1 sn Moses and Aaron would not have made the appeal to Pharaoh that these Hebrew foremen did, but they were concerned to see what might happen, and so they waited to meet the foremen when they came out. |
| (0.42739887096774) | (Exo 7:20) |
4 tn The text could be rendered “in the sight of,” or simply “before,” but the literal idea of “before the eyes of” may stress how obvious the event was and how personally they were witnesses of it. |
