Kejadian 24:4
Konteks24:4 You must go instead to my country and to my relatives 1 to find 2 a wife for my son Isaac.”
Kejadian 24:60
Konteks24:60 They blessed Rebekah with these words: 3
“Our sister, may you become the mother 4 of thousands of ten thousands!
May your descendants possess the strongholds 5 of their enemies.”
[24:4] 1 tn Heb “for to my country and my relatives you must go.”
[24:60] 3 tn Heb “and said to her.”
[24:60] 4 tn Heb “become thousands of ten thousands.”
[24:60] sn May you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands. The blessing expresses their prayer that she produce children and start a family line that will greatly increase (cf. Gen 17:16).
[24:60] 5 tn Heb “gate,” which here stands for a walled city. In an ancient Near Eastern city the gate complex was the main area of defense (hence the translation “stronghold”). A similar phrase occurs in Gen 22:17.