Genesis 1:29

1:29 Then God said, “I now ¹  give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ² 

Genesis 31:32

31:32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! ³  In the presence of our relatives ⁴  identify whatever is yours and take it.” ⁵  (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.) ⁶ 

Genesis 31:37

31:37 When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? ⁷  Set it here before my relatives and yours, ⁸  and let them settle the dispute between the two of us! ⁹ 

Genesis 47:24

47:24 When you gather in the crop, ¹⁰  give ¹¹  one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and the rest ¹²  will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children.”

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¹ tn The text uses הִנֵּה (hinneh), often archaically translated “behold.” It is often used to express the dramatic present, the immediacy of an event – “Look, this is what I am doing!”

² sn G. J. Wenham (Genesis [WBC], 1:34) points out that there is nothing in the passage that prohibits the man and the woman from eating meat. He suggests that eating meat came after the fall. Gen 9:3 may then ratify the postfall practice of eating meat rather than inaugurate the practice, as is often understood.

³ tn Heb “With whomever you find your gods, he will not live.”

⁴ tn Heb “brothers.”

⁵ tn Heb “recognize for yourself what is with me and take for yourself.”

⁶ tn The disjunctive clause (introduced here by a vav [ו] conjunction) provides supplemental material that is important to the story. Since this material is parenthetical in nature, it has been placed in parentheses in the translation.

⁷ tn Heb “what did you find from all the goods of your house?”

⁸ tn Heb “your relatives.” The word “relatives” has not been repeated in the translation here for stylistic reasons.

⁹ tn Heb “that they may decide between us two.”

¹⁰ tn The words “the crop” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹¹ tn The perfect form with the vav (ו) consecutive is equivalent to an imperfect of instruction here.

¹² tn Heb “four parts.”