Discovery Box| (0.44648690625) | (1Ch 5:1) |
1 sn The phrase when he defiled his father’s bed refers to Reuben having sexual relations with his father Jacob’s concubine Bilhah. This incident is recorded in Gen 35:22. |
| (0.44648690625) | (Luk 15:20) |
3 sn The major figure of the parable, the forgiving father, represents God the Father and his compassionate response. God is ready with open arms to welcome the sinner who comes back to him. |
| (0.44648690625) | (Joh 8:19) |
2 sn If you knew me you would know my Father too. Jesus’ reply is based on his identity with the Father (see also John 1:18; 14:9). |
| (0.44648690625) | (Joh 14:31) |
2 tn Grk “But so that the world may know that I love the Father, and just as the Father commanded me, thus I do.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to conform to contemporary English style. |
| (0.44648690625) | (Joh 17:4) |
1 tn Or “by finishing” or “by accomplishing.” Jesus now states that he has glorified the Father on earth by finishing (τελειώσας [teleiwsas] is best understood as an adverbial participle of means) the work which the Father had given him to do. |
| (0.44648690625) | (Gal 1:6) |
1 sn The one who called you is a reference to God the Father (note the mention of Christ in the following prepositional phrase and the mention of God the Father in 1:1). |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Gen 19:34) |
2 tn Heb “Look, I lied down with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight.” |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Gen 31:3) |
1 tn Or perhaps “ancestors” (so NRSV), although the only “ancestors” Jacob had there were his grandfather Abraham and his father Isaac. |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Gen 31:53) |
2 tn Heb “by the fear of his father Isaac.” See the note on the word “fears” in v. 42. |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Gen 37:13) |
2 sn With these words Joseph is depicted here as an obedient son who is ready to do what his father commands. |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Gen 44:20) |
1 tn Heb “and a small boy of old age,” meaning that he was born when his father was elderly. |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Gen 48:9) |
2 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Joseph’s father) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Gen 48:10) |
4 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Joseph’s father) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Lev 18:7) |
2 tn Heb “The nakedness of your father and [i.e., even] the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover.” |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Deu 27:20) |
3 tn Heb “he uncovers his father’s skirt” (NASB similar). See note at Deut 22:30. |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Jos 17:1) |
2 tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.” |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Jdg 15:2) |
2 tn Heb “hating, you hated.” Once again the girl’s father uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis. |
| (0.44345552083333) | (Rut 2:5) |
3 sn In this patriarchal culture Ruth would “belong” to either her father (if unmarried) or her husband (if married). |
| (0.44345552083333) | (1Ki 2:31) |
2 tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.” |
| (0.44345552083333) | (1Ki 2:44) |
1 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.” |
