Kejadian 22:13

22:13 Abraham looked up ¹  and saw ²  behind him ³  a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he ⁴  went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Kejadian 27:31

27:31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau ⁵  said to him, “My father, get up ⁶  and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.” ⁷ 

Kejadian 28:11

28:11 He reached a certain place ⁸  where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. ⁹  He took one of the stones ¹⁰  and placed it near his head. ¹¹  Then he fell asleep ¹²  in that place

Kejadian 29:32

29:32 So Leah became pregnant ¹³  and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, ¹⁴  for she said, “The Lord has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. ¹⁵  Surely my husband will love me now.”

Kejadian 42:6

42:6 Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. ¹⁶  Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down ¹⁷  before him with ¹⁸  their faces to the ground.

Kejadian 45:9

45:9 Now go up to my father quickly ¹⁹  and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

[22:13]  ¹ tn Heb “lifted his eyes.”

[22:13]  ² tn Heb “and saw, and look.” The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) draws attention to what Abraham saw and invites the audience to view the scene through his eyes.

[22:13]  ³ tc The translation follows the reading of the MT; a number of Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac, and Samaritan Pentateuch read “one” (אֶחָד, ’ekhad) instead of “behind him” (אַחַר, ’akhar).

[22:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “Abraham”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[27:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he said to his father”; the referent of “he” (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity, while the words “his father” have been replaced by the pronoun “him” for stylistic reasons.

[27:31]  ⁶ tn Or “arise” (i.e., sit up).

[27:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “so that your soul may bless me.”

[28:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “the place.” The article may indicate simply that the place is definite in the mind of the narrator. However, as the story unfolds the place is transformed into a holy place. See A. P. Ross, “Jacob’s Vision: The Founding of Bethel,” BSac 142 (1985): 224-37.

[28:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he spent the night there because the sun had gone down.”

[28:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he took from the stones of the place,” which here means Jacob took one of the stones (see v. 18).

[28:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he put [it at] the place of his head.” The text does not actually say the stone was placed under his head to serve as a pillow, although most interpreters and translators assume this. It is possible the stone served some other purpose. Jacob does not seem to have been a committed monotheist yet (see v. 20-21) so he may have believed it contained some spiritual power. Note that later in the story he anticipates the stone becoming the residence of God (see v. 22). Many cultures throughout the world view certain types of stones as magical and/or sacred. See J. G. Fraser, Folklore in the Old Testament, 231-37.

[28:11]  ¹² tn Heb “lay down.”

[29:32]  ¹³ tn Or “Leah conceived” (also in vv. 33, 34, 35).

[29:32]  ¹⁴ sn The name Reuben (רְאוּבֵן, rÿ’uven) means “look, a son.”

[29:32]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “looked on my affliction.”

[29:32]  sn Leah’s explanation of the name Reuben reflects a popular etymology, not an exact one. The name means literally “look, a son.” Playing on the Hebrew verb “look,” she observes that the Lord has “looked” with pity on her oppressed condition. See further S. R. Driver, Genesis, 273.

[42:6]  ¹⁶ tn The disjunctive clause either introduces a new episode in the unfolding drama or provides the reader with supplemental information necessary to understanding the story.

[42:6]  ¹⁷ sn Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him. Here is the beginning of the fulfillment of Joseph’s dreams (see Gen 37). But it is not the complete fulfillment, since all his brothers and his parents must come. The point of the dream, of course, was not simply to get the family to bow to Joseph, but that Joseph would be placed in a position of rule and authority to save the family and the world (41:57).

[42:6]  ¹⁸ tn The word “faces” is an adverbial accusative, so the preposition has been supplied in the translation.

[45:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “hurry and go up.”