Kejadian 16:5

16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You have brought this wrong on me! ¹  I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, ²  but when she realized ³  that she was pregnant, she despised me. ⁴  May the Lord judge between you and me!” ⁵ 

Kejadian 19:9

19:9 “Out of our way!” ⁶  they cried, and “This man came to live here as a foreigner, ⁷  and now he dares to judge us! ⁸  We’ll do more harm ⁹  to you than to them!” They kept ¹⁰  pressing in on Lot until they were close enough ¹¹  to break down the door.

Kejadian 19:14

19:14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. ¹²  He said, “Quick, get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy ¹³  the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them. ¹⁴ 

Kejadian 27:37

27:37 Isaac replied to Esau, “Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

Kejadian 29:25

29:25 In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! ¹⁵  So Jacob ¹⁶  said to Laban, “What in the world have you done to me! ¹⁷  Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked ¹⁸  me?”

Kejadian 30:33

30:33 My integrity will testify for me ¹⁹  later on. ²⁰  When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on, ²¹  if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.” ²² 

Kejadian 31:42

31:42 If the God of my father – the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears ²³  – had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, ²⁴  and he rebuked you last night.”

Kejadian 35:2

35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. ²⁵  Purify yourselves and change your clothes. ²⁶ 

Kejadian 37:2

37:2 This is the account of Jacob.

Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, ²⁷  was taking care of ²⁸  the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster ²⁹  working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. ³⁰  Joseph brought back a bad report about them ³¹  to their father.

Kejadian 42:7

42:7 When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger ³²  to them and spoke to them harshly. He asked, “Where do you come from?” They answered, ³³  “From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food.” ³⁴ 

Kejadian 42:25

42:25 Then Joseph gave orders to fill ³⁵  their bags with grain, to return each man’s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out. ³⁶ 

Kejadian 47:29

47:29 The time ³⁷  for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh ³⁸  and show me kindness and faithfulness. ³⁹  Do not bury me in Egypt,

Kejadian 48:7

48:7 But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died – to my sorrow ⁴⁰  – in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem). ⁴¹ 

Kejadian 48:19

48:19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude ⁴²  of nations.”

[16:5]  ¹ tn Heb “my wrong is because of you.”

[16:5]  ² tn Heb “I placed my female servant in your bosom.”

[16:5]  ³ tn Heb “saw.”

[16:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “I was despised in her eyes.” The passive verb has been translated as active for stylistic reasons. Sarai was made to feel supplanted and worthless by Hagar the servant girl.

[16:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “me and you.”

[16:5]  sn May the Lord judge between you and me. Sarai blamed Abram for Hagar’s attitude, not the pregnancy. Here she expects to be vindicated by the Lord who will prove Abram responsible. A colloquial rendering might be, “God will get you for this.” It may mean that she thought Abram had encouraged the servant girl in her elevated status.

[19:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “approach out there” which could be rendered “Get out of the way, stand back!”

[19:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “to live as a resident alien.”

[19:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he has judged, judging.” The infinitive absolute follows the finite verbal form for emphasis. This emphasis is reflected in the translation by the phrase “dares to judge.”

[19:9]  ⁹ tn The verb “to do wickedly” is repeated here (see v. 7). It appears that whatever “wickedness” the men of Sodom had intended to do to Lot’s visitors – probably nothing short of homosexual rape – they were now ready to inflict on Lot.

[19:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they pressed against the man, against Lot, exceedingly.”

[19:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and they drew near.”

[19:14]  ¹² sn The language has to be interpreted in the light of the context and the social customs. The men are called “sons-in-law” (literally “the takers of his daughters”), but the daughters had not yet had sex with a man. It is better to translate the phrase “who were going to marry his daughters.” Since formal marriage contracts were binding, the husbands-to-be could already be called sons-in-law.

[19:14]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew active participle expresses an imminent action.

[19:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he was like one taunting in the eyes of his sons-in-law.” These men mistakenly thought Lot was ridiculing them and their lifestyle. Their response illustrates how morally insensitive they had become.

[29:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and it happened in the morning that look, it was Leah.” By the use of the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”), the narrator invites the reader to view the scene through Jacob’s eyes.

[29:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[29:25]  ¹⁷ tn Heb What is this you have done to me?” The use of the pronoun “this” is enclitic, adding emphasis to the question: “What in the world have you done to me?”

[29:25]  ¹⁸ sn The Hebrew verb translated tricked here (רָמָה, ramah) is cognate to the noun used in Gen 27:35 to describe Jacob’s deception of Esau. Jacob is discovering that what goes around, comes around. See J. A. Diamond, “The Deception of Jacob: A New Perspective on an Ancient Solution to the Problem,” VT 34 (1984): 211-13.

[30:33]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “will answer on my behalf.”

[30:33]  ²⁰ tn Heb “on the following day,” or “tomorrow.”

[30:33]  ²¹ tn Heb “when you come concerning my wage before you.”

[30:33]  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.

[30:33]  ²² tn Heb “every one which is not speckled and spotted among the lambs and dark among the goats, stolen it is with me.”

[31:42]  ²³ tn Heb “the fear of Isaac,” that is, the one whom Isaac feared and respected. For further discussion of this title see M. Malul, “More on pahad yitschaq (Gen. 31:42,53) and the Oath by the Thigh,” VT 35 (1985): 192-200.

[31:42]  ²⁴ tn Heb “My oppression and the work of my hands God saw.”

[35:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “which are in your midst.”

[35:2]  ²⁶ sn The actions of removing false gods, becoming ritually clean, and changing garments would become necessary steps in Israel when approaching the Lord in worship.

[37:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “a son of seventeen years.” The word “son” is in apposition to the name “Joseph.”

[37:2]  ²⁸ tn Or “tending”; Heb “shepherding” or “feeding.”

[37:2]  ²⁹ tn Or perhaps “a helper.” The significance of this statement is unclear. It may mean “now the lad was with,” or it may suggest Joseph was like a servant to them.

[37:2]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and he [was] a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father.”

[37:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “their bad report.” The pronoun is an objective genitive, specifying that the bad or damaging report was about the brothers.

[37:2]  sn Some interpreters portray Joseph as a tattletale for bringing back a bad report about them [i.e., his brothers], but the entire Joseph story has some of the characteristics of wisdom literature. Joseph is presented in a good light – not because he was perfect, but because the narrative is showing how wisdom rules. In light of that, this section portrays Joseph as faithful to his father in little things, even though unpopular – and so he will eventually be given authority over greater things.

[42:7]  ³² sn But pretended to be a stranger. Joseph intends to test his brothers to see if they have changed and have the integrity to be patriarchs of the tribes of Israel. He will do this by putting them in the same situations that they and he were in before. The first test will be to awaken their conscience.

[42:7]  ³³ tn Heb “said.”

[42:7]  ³⁴ tn The verb is denominative, meaning “to buy grain”; the word “food” could simply be the direct object, but may also be an adverbial accusative.

[42:25]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and they filled.” The clause appears to be elliptical; one expects “Joseph gave orders to fill…and they filled.” See GKC 386 §120.f.

[42:25]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and he did for them so.” Joseph would appear to be the subject of the singular verb. If the text is retained, the statement seems to be a summary of the preceding, more detailed statement. However, some read the verb as plural, “and they did for them so.” In this case the statement indicates that Joseph’s subordinates carried out his orders. Another alternative is to read the singular verb as passive (with unspecified subject), “and this was done for them so” (cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV).

[47:29]  ³⁷ tn Heb “days.”

[47:29]  ³⁸ sn On the expression put your hand under my thigh see Gen 24:2.

[47:29]  ³⁹ tn Or “deal with me in faithful love.”

[48:7]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “upon me, against me,” which might mean something like “to my sorrow.”

[48:7]  ⁴¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[48:19]  ⁴² tn Heb “fullness.”