Kejadian 20:16

20:16 To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver ¹  to your ‘brother.’ ²  This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.” ³ 

Kejadian 21:16

21:16 Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot ⁴  away; for she thought, ⁵  “I refuse to watch the child die.” ⁶  So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably. ⁷ 

Kejadian 24:30

24:30 When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring ⁸  and heard his sister Rebekah say, ⁹  “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing ¹⁰  by the camels near the spring.

Kejadian 24:40

24:40 He answered, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, ¹¹  will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father’s family.

Kejadian 27:19

27:19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up ¹²  and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.” ¹³ 

Kejadian 43:29

43:29 When Joseph looked up ¹⁴  and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said, “Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.” ¹⁵ 

Kejadian 44:26

44:26 But we replied, ‘We cannot go down there. ¹⁶  If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, ¹⁷  for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’

Kejadian 47:4

47:4 Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as temporary residents ¹⁸  in the land. There ¹⁹  is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

Kejadian 48:15

48:15 Then he blessed Joseph and said,

“May the God before whom my fathers

Abraham and Isaac walked –

the God who has been my shepherd ²⁰ 

all my life long to this day,

Kejadian 50:24

50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to you ²¹  and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give ²²  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

[20:16]  ¹ sn A thousand pieces [Heb “shekels”] of silver. The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of silver here 11.5 kilograms, or 400 ounces (about 25 pounds).

[20:16]  ² sn To your ‘brother.’ Note the way that the king refers to Abraham. Was he being sarcastic? It was surely a rebuke to Sarah. What is amazing is how patient this king was. It is proof that the fear of God was in that place, contrary to what Abraham believed (see v. 11).

[20:16]  ³ tn Heb “Look, it is for you a covering of the eyes, for all who are with you, and with all, and you are set right.” The exact meaning of the statement is unclear. Apparently it means that the gift of money somehow exonerates her in other people’s eyes. They will not look on her as compromised (see G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 2:74).

[21:16]  ⁴ sn A bowshot would be a distance of about a hundred yards (ninety meters).

[21:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “said.”

[21:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will not look on the death of the child.” The cohortative verbal form (note the negative particle אַל,’al) here expresses her resolve to avoid the stated action.

[21:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “and she lifted up her voice and wept” (that is, she wept uncontrollably). The LXX reads “he” (referring to Ishmael) rather than “she” (referring to Hagar), but this is probably an attempt to harmonize this verse with the following one, which refers to the boy’s cries.

[24:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “And it was when he saw the nose ring and the bracelets on the arms of his sister.” The word order is altered in the translation for the sake of clarity.

[24:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying.”

[24:30]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and look, he was standing.” The disjunctive clause with the participle following the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) invites the audience to view the scene through Laban’s eyes.

[24:40]  ¹¹ tn The verb is the Hitpael of הָלַךְ (halakh), meaning “live one’s life” (see Gen 17:1). The statement may simply refer to serving the Lord or it may have a more positive moral connotation (“serve faithfully”).

[27:19]  ¹² tn Heb “get up and sit.” This may mean simply “sit up,” or it may indicate that he was to get up from his couch and sit at a table.

[27:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “so that your soul may bless me.” These words, though not reported by Rebekah to Jacob (see v. 7) accurately reflect what Isaac actually said to Esau (see v. 4). Perhaps Jacob knew more than Rebekah realized, but it is more likely that this was an idiom for sincere blessing with which Jacob was familiar. At any rate, his use of the precise wording was a nice, convincing touch.

[43:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he lifted his eyes.” The referent of “he” (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[43:29]  ¹⁵ sn Joseph’s language here becomes warmer and more personal, culminating in calling Benjamin my son.

[44:26]  ¹⁶ tn The direct object is not specified in the Hebrew text, but is implied; “there” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[44:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “go down.”

[47:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to sojourn.”

[47:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for there.” The Hebrew uses a causal particle to connect what follows with what precedes. The translation divides the statement into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[48:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “shepherded me.” The verb has been translated as an English noun for stylistic reasons.

[50:24]  ²¹ tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) means “to visit,” i.e., to intervene for blessing or cursing; here Joseph announces that God would come to fulfill the promises by delivering them from Egypt. The statement is emphasized by the use of the infinitive absolute with the verb: “God will surely visit you.”

[50:24]  ²² tn The words “to give” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.