Kejadian 21:14

21:14 Early in the morning Abraham took ¹  some food ²  and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, ³  and sent her away. So she went wandering ⁴  aimlessly through the wilderness ⁵  of Beer Sheba.

Kejadian 22:2

22:2 God ⁶  said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac ⁷  – and go to the land of Moriah! ⁸  Offer him up there as a burnt offering ⁹  on one of the mountains which I will indicate to ¹⁰  you.”

Kejadian 34:21

34:21 “These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough ¹¹  for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry. ¹² 

[21:14]  ¹ tn Heb “and Abraham rose up early in the morning and he took.”

[21:14]  ² tn Heb “bread,” although the term can be used for food in general.

[21:14]  ³ tn Heb “He put upon her shoulder, and the boy [or perhaps, “and with the boy”], and he sent her away.” It is unclear how “and the boy” relates syntactically to what precedes. Perhaps the words should be rearranged and the text read, “and he put [them] on her shoulder and he gave to Hagar the boy.”

[21:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “she went and wandered.”

[21:14]  ⁵ tn Or “desert,” although for English readers this usually connotes a sandy desert like the Sahara rather than the arid wasteland of this region with its sparse vegetation.

[22:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:2]  ⁷ sn Take your son…Isaac. The instructions are very clear, but the details are deliberate. With every additional description the commandment becomes more challenging.

[22:2]  ⁸ sn There has been much debate over the location of Moriah; 2 Chr 3:1 suggests it may be the site where the temple was later built in Jerusalem.

[22:2]  ⁹ sn A whole burnt offering signified the complete surrender of the worshiper and complete acceptance by God. The demand for a human sacrifice was certainly radical and may have seemed to Abraham out of character for God. Abraham would have to obey without fully understanding what God was about.

[22:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “which I will say to.”

[34:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “wide on both hands,” that is, in both directions.

[34:21]  ¹² tn The words “to marry” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.