Kejadian 19:2

19:2 He said, “Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night ¹  and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.” ²  “No,” they replied, “we’ll spend the night in the town square.” ³ 

Kejadian 26:7

26:7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” ⁴  He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, ⁵  “The men of this place will kill me to get ⁶  Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

Kejadian 30:15

30:15 But Leah replied, ⁷  “Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?” “All right,” ⁸  Rachel said, “he may sleep ⁹  with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

Kejadian 30:31

30:31 So Laban asked, ¹⁰  “What should I give you?” “You don’t need to give me a thing,” ¹¹  Jacob replied, ¹²  “but if you agree to this one condition, ¹³  I will continue to care for ¹⁴  your flocks and protect them:

Kejadian 33:13

33:13 But Jacob ¹⁵  said to him, “My lord knows that the children are young, ¹⁶  and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. ¹⁷  If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

Kejadian 38:18

38:18 He said, “What pledge should I give you?” She replied, “Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her and had sex with her. ¹⁸  She became pregnant by him.

[19:2]  ¹ tn The imperatives have the force of invitation.

[19:2]  ² tn These two verbs form a verbal hendiadys: “you can rise up early and go” means “you can go early.”

[19:2]  ³ sn The town square refers to the wide street area at the gate complex of the city.

[26:7]  ⁴ sn Rebekah, unlike Sarah, was not actually her husband’s sister.

[26:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “lest.” The words “for he thought to himself” are supplied because the next clause is written with a first person pronoun, showing that Isaac was saying or thinking this.

[26:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “kill me on account of.”

[30:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “and she said to her”; the referent of the pronoun “she” (Leah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “therefore.”

[30:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “lie down.” The expression “lie down with” in this context (here and in the following verse) refers to sexual intercourse. The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.

[30:31]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he said.” The referent (Laban) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:31]  ¹¹ tn The negated imperfect verbal form has an obligatory nuance.

[30:31]  ¹² tn The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[30:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “If you do for me this thing.”

[30:31]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I will return, I will tend,” an idiom meaning “I will continue tending.”

[33:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “weak.”

[33:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and the sheep and the cattle nursing [are] upon me.”

[38:18]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he went to her.” This expression is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.