Kejadian 4:24

4:24 If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much,

then Lamech seventy-seven times!” ¹ 

Kejadian 18:26

18:26 So the Lord replied, “If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Kejadian 20:2

20:2 Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

Kejadian 24:50

24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord’s doing. ²  Our wishes are of no concern. ³ 

Kejadian 26:12

26:12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, ⁴  because the Lord blessed him. ⁵ 

Kejadian 26:15

26:15 So the Philistines took dirt and filled up ⁶  all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Kejadian 29:21

29:21 Finally Jacob said ⁷  to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. ⁸  I want to have marital relations with her.” ⁹ 

Kejadian 30:8

30:8 Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” ¹⁰  So she named him Naphtali. ¹¹ 

Kejadian 34:18

34:18 Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem. ¹² 

Kejadian 35:17

35:17 When her labor was at its hardest, ¹³  the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.” ¹⁴ 

Kejadian 37:29

37:29 Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! ¹⁵  He tore his clothes,

Kejadian 41:10

41:10 Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards – me and the chief baker.

Kejadian 41:39

41:39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning ¹⁶  as you are!

Kejadian 44:22

44:22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father ¹⁷  will die.’ ¹⁸ 

Kejadian 46:30

46:30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.” ¹⁹ 

Kejadian 48:18

48:18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

[4:24]  ¹ sn Seventy-seven times. Lamech seems to reason this way: If Cain, a murderer, is to be avenged seven times (see v. 15), then how much more one who has been unjustly wronged! Lamech misses the point of God’s merciful treatment of Cain. God was not establishing a principle of justice when he warned he would avenge Cain’s murder. In fact he was trying to limit the shedding of blood, something Lamech wants to multiply instead. The use of “seventy-seven,” a multiple of seven, is hyperbolic, emphasizing the extreme severity of the vengeance envisioned by Lamech.

[24:50]  ² tn Heb “From the Lord the matter has gone out.”

[24:50]  ³ tn Heb “We are not able to speak to you bad or good.” This means that Laban and Bethuel could not say one way or the other what they wanted, for they viewed it as God’s will.

[26:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “a hundredfold.”

[26:12]  ⁵ tn This final clause explains why Isaac had such a bountiful harvest.

[26:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the Philistines stopped them up and filled them with dirt.”

[29:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “and Jacob said.”

[29:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “my days are fulfilled.”

[29:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “and I will go in to her.” The verb is a cohortative; it may be subordinated to the preceding request, “that I may go in,” or it may be an independent clause expressing his desire. The verb “go in” in this context refers to sexual intercourse (i.e., the consummation of the marriage).

[30:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “[with] a mighty struggle I have struggled with my sister, also I have prevailed.” The phrase “mighty struggle” reads literally “struggles of God.” The plural participle “struggles” reflects the ongoing nature of the struggle, while the divine name is used here idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the struggle. See J. Skinner, Genesis (ICC), 387.

[30:8]  ¹¹ sn The name Naphtali (נַפְתָּלִי, naftali) must mean something like “my struggle” in view of the statement Rachel made in the preceding clause. The name plays on this earlier statement, “[with] a mighty struggle I have struggled with my sister.”

[34:18]  ¹² tn Heb “and their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem son of Hamor.”

[35:17]  ¹³ tn The construction uses a Hiphil infinitive, which E. A. Speiser classifies as an elative Hiphil. The contrast is with the previous Piel: there “she had hard labor,” and here, “her labor was at its hardest.” Failure to see this, Speiser notes, has led to redundant translations and misunderstandings (Genesis [AB], 273).

[35:17]  ¹⁴ sn Another son. The episode recalls and fulfills the prayer of Rachel at the birth of Joseph (Gen 30:24): “may he add” another son.

[37:29]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and look, Joseph was not in the cistern.” By the use of וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and look”), the narrator invites the reader to see the situation through Reuben’s eyes.

[41:39]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “as discerning and wise.” The order has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[44:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the boy’s father, i.e., Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[44:22]  ¹⁸ tn The last two verbs are perfect tenses with vav consecutive. The first is subordinated to the second as a conditional clause.

[46:30]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “after my seeing your face that you are still alive.”