Kejadian 18:16

Abraham Pleads for Sodom

18:16 When the men got up to leave, ¹  they looked out over ²  Sodom. (Now ³  Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.) ⁴ 

Kejadian 29:21

29:21 Finally Jacob said ⁵  to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. ⁶  I want to have marital relations with her.” ⁷ 

Kejadian 31:44

31:44 So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, ⁸  you and I, and it will be ⁹  proof that we have made peace.” ¹⁰ 

Kejadian 31:51

31:51 “Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob. ¹¹ 

Kejadian 35:8

35:8 (Deborah, ¹²  Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named ¹³  Oak of Weeping.) ¹⁴ 

Kejadian 35:27

35:27 So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, ¹⁵  to Kiriath Arba ¹⁶  (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. ¹⁷ 

Kejadian 42:29

42:29 They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

Kejadian 43:25

43:25 They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival ¹⁸  at noon, for they had heard ¹⁹  that they were to have a meal ²⁰  there.

Kejadian 50:14

50:14 After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.

[18:16]  ¹ tn Heb “And the men arose from there.”

[18:16]  ² tn Heb “toward the face of.”

[18:16]  ³ tn The disjunctive parenthetical clause sets the stage for the following speech.

[18:16]  ⁴ tn The Piel of שָׁלַח (shalakh) means “to lead out, to send out, to expel”; here it is used in the friendly sense of seeing the visitors on their way.

[29:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Jacob said.”

[29:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “my days are fulfilled.”

[29:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “and I will go in to her.” The verb is a cohortative; it may be subordinated to the preceding request, “that I may go in,” or it may be an independent clause expressing his desire. The verb “go in” in this context refers to sexual intercourse (i.e., the consummation of the marriage).

[31:44]  ⁸ tn Heb “cut a covenant.”

[31:44]  ⁹ tn The verb הָיָה (hayah) followed by the preposition לְ (lÿ) means “become.”

[31:44]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and it will become a witness between me and you.”

[31:51]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and Laban said to Jacob, ‘Behold this heap and behold the pillar which I have set between men and you.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[35:8]  ¹² sn Deborah. This woman had been Rebekah’s nurse, but later attached herself to Jacob. She must have been about one hundred and eighty years old when she died.

[35:8]  ¹³ tn “and he called its name.” There is no expressed subject, so the verb can be translated as passive.

[35:8]  ¹⁴ tn Or “Allon Bacuth,” if one transliterates the Hebrew name (cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV). An oak tree was revered in the ancient world and often designated as a shrine or landmark. This one was named for the weeping (mourning) occasioned by the death of Deborah.

[35:27]  ¹⁵ tn This is an adverbial accusative of location.

[35:27]  ¹⁶ tn The name “Kiriath Arba” is in apposition to the preceding name, “Mamre.”

[35:27]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew verb גּוּר (gur), traditionally rendered “to sojourn,” refers to temporary settlement without ownership rights.

[43:25]  ¹⁸ tn The construction uses the infinitive construct after the preposition, followed by the subjective genitive.

[43:25]  ¹⁹ tn The action precedes the action of preparing the gift, and so must be translated as past perfect.

[43:25]  ²⁰ tn Heb “eat bread.” The imperfect verbal form is used here as a historic future (future from the perspective of the past).