Genesis 1:7

1:7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. ¹  It was so. ² 

Genesis 6:21

6:21 And you must take ³  for yourself every kind of food ⁴  that is eaten, ⁵  and gather it together. ⁶  It will be food for you and for them.

Genesis 9:16

9:16 When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember ⁷  the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

Genesis 18:8

18:8 Abraham ⁸  then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food ⁹  before them. They ate while ¹⁰  he was standing near them under a tree.

Genesis 25:22

25:22 But the children struggled ¹¹  inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” ¹²  So she asked the Lord, ¹³ 

Genesis 26:20

26:20 the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled ¹⁴  with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water belongs to us!” So Isaac ¹⁵  named the well ¹⁶  Esek ¹⁷  because they argued with him about it. ¹⁸ 

Genesis 27:14

27:14 So he went and got the goats ¹⁹  and brought them to his mother. She ²⁰  prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

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¹ tn Heb “the expanse.”

² tn This statement indicates that it happened the way God designed it, underscoring the connection between word and event.

³ tn The verb is a direct imperative: “And you, take for yourself.” The form stresses the immediate nature of the instruction; the pronoun underscores the directness.

⁴ tn Heb “from all food,” meaning “some of every kind of food.”

⁵ tn Or “will be eaten.”

⁶ tn Heb “and gather it to you.”

⁷ tn The translation assumes that the infinitive לִזְכֹּר (lizkor, “to remember”) here expresses the result of seeing the rainbow. Another option is to understand it as indicating purpose, in which case it could be translated, “I will look at it so that I may remember.”

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn The words “the food” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text the verb has no stated object.

¹⁰ tn The disjunctive clause is a temporal circumstantial clause subordinate to the main verb.

¹¹ tn The Hebrew word used here suggests a violent struggle that was out of the ordinary.

¹² tn Heb “If [it is] so, why [am] I this [way]?” Rebekah wanted to know what was happening to her, but the question itself reflects a growing despair over the struggle of the unborn children.

¹³ sn Asked the Lord. In other passages (e.g., 1 Sam 9:9) this expression refers to inquiring of a prophet, but no details are provided here.

¹⁴ tn The Hebrew verb translated “quarreled” describes a conflict that often has legal ramifications.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Isaac) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Heb “and he called the name of the well.”

¹⁷ sn The name Esek means “argument” in Hebrew. The following causal clause explains that Isaac gave the well this name as a reminder of the conflict its discovery had created. In the Hebrew text there is a wordplay, for the name is derived from the verb translated “argued.”

¹⁸ tn The words “about it” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁹ tn The words “the goats” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²⁰ tn Heb “his mother.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “she” in the translation for stylistic reasons.