Genesis 17:12

17:12 Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old ¹  must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

Genesis 19:31

19:31 Later the older daughter said ²  to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby ³  to have sexual relations with us, ⁴  according to the way of all the world.

Genesis 21:7

21:7 She went on to say, ⁵  “Who would ⁶  have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

Genesis 27:1

Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing

27:1 When ⁷  Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, ⁸  he called his older ⁹  son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau ¹⁰  replied.

Genesis 41:46

41:46 Now Joseph was 30 years old ¹¹  when he began serving ¹²  Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by ¹³  Pharaoh and was in charge of ¹⁴  all the land of Egypt.

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¹ tn Heb “the son of eight days.”

² tn Heb “and the firstborn said.”

³ tn Or perhaps “on earth,” in which case the statement would be hyperbolic; presumably there had been some men living in the town of Zoar to which Lot and his daughters had initially fled.

⁴ tn Heb “to enter upon us.” This is a euphemism for sexual relations.

⁵ tn Heb “said.”

⁶ tn The perfect form of the verb is used here to describe a hypothetical situation.

⁷ tn The clause begins with the temporal indicator (“and it happened”), making it subordinate to the main clause that follows later in the sentence.

⁸ tn Heb “and his eyes were weak from seeing.”

⁹ tn Heb “greater” (in terms of age).

¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Esau) is specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “a son of thirty years.”

¹² tn Heb “when he stood before.”

¹³ tn Heb “went out from before.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and he passed through all the land of Egypt”; this phrase is interpreted by JPS to mean that Joseph “emerged in charge of the whole land.”