Kejadian 30:27

30:27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, ¹  for I have learned by divination ²  that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

Kejadian 32:5

32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent ³  this message ⁴  to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

[30:27]  ¹ tn The words “please stay here” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[30:27]  ² tn Or perhaps “I have grown rich and the Lord has blessed me” (cf. NEB). See J. Finkelstein, “An Old Babylonian Herding Contract and Genesis 31:38f.,” JAOS 88 (1968): 34, n. 19.

[32:5]  ³ tn Or “I am sending.” The form is a preterite with the vav consecutive; it could be rendered as an English present tense – as the Hebrew perfect/preterite allows – much like an epistolary aorist in Greek. The form assumes the temporal perspective of the one who reads the message.

[32:5]  ⁴ tn The words “this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.