Kejadian 20:3

20:3 But God appeared ¹  to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead ²  because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” ³ 

Kejadian 20:8

20:8 Early in the morning ⁴  Abimelech summoned ⁵  all his servants. When he told them about all these things, ⁶  they ⁷  were terrified.

Kejadian 12:9

12:9 Abram continually journeyed by stages ⁸  down to the Negev. ⁹ 

[20:3]  ¹ tn Heb “came.”

[20:3]  ² tn Heb “Look, you [are] dead.” The Hebrew construction uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with a second person pronominal particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with by the participle. It is a highly rhetorical expression.

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “and she is owned by an owner.” The disjunctive clause is causal or explanatory in this case.

[20:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “And Abimelech rose early in the morning and he summoned.”

[20:8]  ⁵ tn The verb קָרָא (qara’) followed by the preposition לְ (lamed) means “to summon.”

[20:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “And he spoke all these things in their ears.”

[20:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “the men.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “they” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[12:9]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew verb נָסַע (nasa’) means “to journey”; more specifically it means to pull up the tent and move to another place. The construction here uses the preterite of this verb with its infinitive absolute to stress the activity of traveling. But it also adds the infinitive absolute of הָלַךְ (halakh) to stress that the traveling was continually going on. Thus “Abram journeyed, going and journeying” becomes “Abram continually journeyed by stages.”

[12:9]  ⁹ tn Or “the South [country].”

[12:9]  sn Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.