Kejadian 35:3

35:3 Let us go up at once ¹  to Bethel. Then I will make ²  an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress ³  and has been with me wherever I went.” ⁴ 

Kejadian 35:7

35:7 He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel ⁵  because there God had revealed himself ⁶  to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Kejadian 49:11

49:11 Binding his foal to the vine,

and his colt to the choicest vine,

he will wash ⁷  his garments in wine,

his robes in the blood of grapes.

[35:3]  ¹ tn Heb “let us arise and let us go up.” The first cohortative gives the statement a sense of urgency.

[35:3]  ² tn The cohortative with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or consequence.

[35:3]  ³ tn Heb “day of distress.” See Ps 20:1 which utilizes similar language.

[35:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the way in which I went.” Jacob alludes here to God’s promise to be with him (see Gen 28:20).

[35:7]  ⁵ sn The name El-Bethel means “God of Bethel.”

[35:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “revealed themselves.” The verb נִגְלוּ (niglu), translated “revealed himself,” is plural, even though one expects the singular form with the plural of majesty. Perhaps אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) is here a numerical plural, referring both to God and the angelic beings that appeared to Jacob. See the note on the word “know” in Gen 3:5.

[49:11]  ⁷ tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically, describing coming events as though they have already taken place.