Kejadian 17:11

17:11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder ¹  of the covenant between me and you.

Kejadian 17:15

17:15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; ²  Sarah ³  will be her name.

Kejadian 21:8

21:8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared ⁴  a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ⁵ 

Kejadian 27:34

27:34 When Esau heard ⁶  his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. ⁷  He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

Kejadian 39:7

39:7 Soon after these things, his master’s wife took notice of ⁸  Joseph and said, “Have sex with me.” ⁹ 

Kejadian 40:9

40:9 So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: ¹⁰  “In my dream, there was a vine in front of me.

Kejadian 43:33

43:33 They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. ¹¹  The men looked at each other in astonishment. ¹² 

Kejadian 47:27

47:27 Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

[17:11]  ¹ tn Or “sign.”

[17:15]  ² tn Heb “[As for] Sarai your wife, you must not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [will be] her name.”

[17:15]  ³ sn Sarah. The name change seems to be a dialectical variation, both spellings meaning “princess” or “queen.” Like the name Abram, the name Sarai symbolized the past. The new name Sarah, like the name Abraham, would be a reminder of what God intended to do for Sarah in the future.

[21:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “made.”

[21:8]  ⁵ sn Children were weaned closer to the age of two or three in the ancient world, because infant mortality was high. If an infant grew to this stage, it was fairly certain he or she would live. Such an event called for a celebration, especially for parents who had waited so long for a child.

[27:34]  ⁶ tn The temporal clause is introduced with the temporal indicator and has the infinitive as its verb.

[27:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he yelled [with] a great and bitter yell to excess.”

[39:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “she lifted up her eyes toward,” an expression that emphasizes her deliberate and careful scrutiny of him.

[39:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “lie with me.” Here the expression “lie with” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.

[39:7]  sn The story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife has long been connected with the wisdom warnings about the strange woman who tries to seduce the young man with her boldness and directness (see Prov 5-7, especially 7:6-27). This is part of the literary background of the story of Joseph that gives it a wisdom flavor. See G. von Rad, God at Work in Israel, 19-35; and G. W. Coats, “The Joseph Story and Ancient Wisdom: A Reappraisal,” CBQ 35 (1973): 285-97.

[40:9]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text adds “and he said to him.” This has not been translated because it is redundant in English.

[43:33]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth.”

[43:33]  ¹² sn The brothers’ astonishment indicates that Joseph arranged them in this way. They were astonished because there was no way, as far as they were concerned, that Joseph could have known the order of their birth.