Kejadian 24:31

24:31 Laban said to him, ¹  “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! ²  Why are you standing out here when I have prepared ³  the house and a place for the camels?”

Kejadian 27:31

27:31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau ⁴  said to him, “My father, get up ⁵  and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.” ⁶ 

Kejadian 47:11

47:11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory ⁷  in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, ⁸  just as Pharaoh had commanded.

[24:31]  ¹ tn Heb “and he said.” The referent (Laban) has been specified and the words “to him” supplied in the translation for clarity.

[24:31]  ² sn Laban’s obsession with wealth is apparent; to him it represents how one is blessed by the Lord. Already the author is laying the foundation for subsequent events in the narrative, where Laban’s greed becomes his dominant characteristic.

[24:31]  ³ tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial.

[27:31]  ⁴ 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the referent of “he” (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity, while the words “his father” have been replaced by the pronoun “him” for stylistic reasons.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]  ⁵ tn Or “arise” (i.e., sit up).

[27:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “so that your soul may bless me.”

[47:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “a possession,” or “a holding.” Joseph gave them a plot of land with rights of ownership in the land of Goshen.

[47:11]  ⁸ sn The land of Rameses is another designation for the region of Goshen. It is named Rameses because of a city in that region (Exod 1:11; 12:37). The use of this name may represent a modernization of the text for the understanding of the intended readers, substituting a later name for an earlier one. Alternatively, there may have been an earlier Rameses for which the region was named.