Kejadian 32:11

32:11 Rescue me, ¹  I pray, from the hand ²  of my brother Esau, ³  for I am afraid he will come ⁴  and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children. ⁵ 

Kejadian 37:3

37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons ⁶  because he was a son born to him late in life, ⁷  and he made a special ⁸  tunic for him.

Kejadian 41:56

41:56 While the famine was over all the earth, ⁹  Joseph opened the storehouses ¹⁰  and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

Kejadian 47:20

47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each ¹¹  of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. ¹²  So the land became Pharaoh’s.

[32:11]  ¹ tn The imperative has the force of a prayer here, not a command.

[32:11]  ² tn The “hand” here is a metonymy for “power.”

[32:11]  ³ tn Heb “from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau.”

[32:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “for I am afraid of him, lest he come.”

[32:11]  ⁵ sn Heb “me, [the] mother upon [the] sons.” The first person pronoun “me” probably means here “me and mine,” as the following clause suggests.

[37:3]  ⁶ tn The disjunctive clause provides supplemental information vital to the story. It explains in part the brothers’ animosity toward Joseph.

[37:3]  sn The statement Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons brings forward a motif that played an important role in the family of Isaac – parental favoritism. Jacob surely knew what that had done to him and his brother Esau, and to his own family. But now he showers affection on Rachel’s son Joseph.

[37:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “a son of old age was he to him.” This expression means “a son born to him when he [i.e., Jacob] was old.”

[37:3]  ⁸ tn It is not clear what this tunic was like, because the meaning of the Hebrew word that describes it is uncertain. The idea that it was a coat of many colors comes from the Greek translation of the OT. An examination of cognate terms in Semitic suggests it was either a coat or tunic with long sleeves (cf. NEB, NRSV), or a tunic that was richly embroidered (cf. NIV). It set Joseph apart as the favored one.

[41:56]  ⁹ tn Or “over the entire land”; Heb “over all the face of the earth.” The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal to the next clause.

[41:56]  ¹⁰ tc The MT reads “he opened all that was in [or “among”] them.” The translation follows the reading of the LXX and Syriac versions.

[47:20]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text connects this clause with the preceding one with a causal particle (כִּי, ki). The translation divides the clauses into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[47:20]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text adds “upon them.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.